Church Girls, Stop Showing Your Breasts

Yes, I’m talking to you church girls today. I expect the girls who don’t know Jesus to flaunt their cleavage. But you? Shouldn’t you know better? Shouldn’t you at least know better than to wear swooping neck lines and push up bras… to church?

Well, just in case you don’t know better here it is:

Yes, it is hard to find clothes that cover the girls appropriately. I know, I’ve been striving for modesty in a non-modest culture for 22 years.

Yes, men are lured by your breasts. I mean some guys couldn’t look you in the eyes if you covered them in a burlap sack. (Yes, fellas, we can tell when you are staring. Our face and our breasts are located in different hemispheres.)

Yes, it gives you power when they are hypnotized by your fruitful endowment.

Yes, it feels good to get attention for your assets.

Yes, God expects you to keep that for one man, your husband (Prov 5:19).

Yes, God expects you to throw out the clothes that expose too much (Hosea 2:2).

But even more, breasts are holy. Really. The Hebrew word for breast is shad. That’s shad as is El Shaddai, the Hebrew name of God meaning All-sufficient. God chose to reveal himself as a nurturing, maternal God, especially to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And he used breasts to do that.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. Gen. 17:1

Because of the El of your father who helps you, because of the Shadday who gives you… blessings from breasts and womb. Gen 49:25 (NOG).

Elohim spoke to Moses, “I am Yahweh. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shadday. Ex. 6:3

Ladies, get did you get that? We bear the image of God in our breasts. You might be getting creeped out by that, but I think it’s pretty awesome. There is something sacred in the nourishment that we provide for babies, comfort to children and refuge to our husbands. We shouldn’t be exposing our breasts carelessly. We should be treasuring the sacredness of God we carry in our bodies. God describes this sanctity in terms of his relationship to Israel:

I made you grow like a plant in the field. You grew up, matured, and became a young woman. Your breasts developed, and your hair grew. Yet, you were naked and bare.

I went by you again and looked at you. You were old enough to make love to. So I spread my robe over you, and covered your naked body. I promised to love you, and I exchanged marriage vows with you. You became mine, declares Adonay Yahweh. Ezk. 16:7-8 (NOG).

The bosom of God is something holy and protected. Just as God said “secret things belong to the LORD our God” (Dt. 29:29), there are things about us girls, that should be a secret. There are pieces of our bodies and heart that one man, who pursues us and is willing to enter a covenant with us, should get.

So church girls, stop showing your breasts.

This is what the Lord says:
“I will give Jerusalem a river of peace and prosperity.
    The wealth of the nations will flow to her.
Her children will be nursed at her breasts,
    carried in her arms, and held on her lap.
I will comfort you there in Jerusalem
    as a mother comforts her child.” Isa. 66:12-13

Check out Jarrid Wilson’s 4 Reasons Modest is Hottest for another take on modesty from a guy’s point of view.

Apr 24, 2014Serena

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Comments: 8

Serena
4 years ago
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Charles
4 years ago
Thanks for writing this. As a man of Christ it is at times crazy hard to avoid temptation. Surely church of all places should be void of such clothing.
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soniaplyler
4 years ago
Looking forward to sharing this as part of a modesty lesson this coming Sunday with 16 & 17 year old ladies. Thanks for providing so many articles that help me minister to ladies of all ages. Don’t know how you do it, but thankful God continues to allow you the time to pour your heart out to help us all in our families and ministries. Btw, my husband LOVED learning this as much as I did and immediately said, there’s a lesson for you to share with the young ladies!!
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- Serena
  4 years ago
  Awesome!
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- Serena
  4 years ago
  And thank you!
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Honie
3 years ago
First of all, the above scripture Ezekiel and Isaiah you are taking out of context as it has nothing to do with the human woman body but refers to the Set Apart Spirit ( Ruwach Qodesh) which is YaHoWaH’s Maternal Nature… But of course you wouldn’t know that being that you are christian and don’t observe the Towrah which is YaHoWaH’s Word. Seems ironic you harping about christian women showing their breasts when in Gods eyes you are all whores, clinging to other gods by other names.
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Laura
3 years ago
Honie, seriously? She didn’t harp and what about your comment is godly in any way?
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Lisa Dodson
3 years ago
You would expect girls that don’t know Jesus to show their cleavage? Gee, that would make an unbeliever be the first to sign up to be a Christian! Do you know how brutally rude and judgmental that is? People are capable of having morals. I know a lot of Jewish, Buddhist, and atheist girls that have self-respect. I’m a born again believer so I can say this – of course knowing Jesus and having the Holy Spirit is going to give you conviction, but you are assuming that people that don’t know Jesus can’t have morality. That’s why holiness is not morality, and morality is not holiness. Your approach to the unbeliever is harsh and critical.

Also, you are reinforcing the mentality that WOMEN are responsible for how MEN act or react to their bodies. How about we stop telling women to adjust their wardrobe, their character, career choices, bodies, etc., and start telling men to be responsible for their thoughts and actions? They are not mindless idiots, and they are perfectly capable of being respectful. This attitude makes it WAY too easy for men to put the blame on women for his own actions. Man up, men. You are responsible for yourselves – stop blaming us. Hypnotized by our fruitful endowment? Please.

And where do we draw the line? What if a man has a shoe fettish? Go barefoot? What if long blonde hair makes them think “lustful thoughts?” Should we cut ours and dye it black? What if they love the way women look in jeans? Go to floor length skirts? What if someone’s eyes are bedazzling in glittery eye shadow? Stop wearing it? It’s ridiculous. Women need to be themselves, let the Holy Spirit tell them what’s right and wrong, and our job is to love them – period.

Third, you are again playing the role of the Holy Spirit, who gives guidance, direction and
conviction. Love is the only thing that changes people. I don’t understand where the “church” decided it was the morality police of the entire world. You can stand on God’s word for your own family – and I’ll stand on God’s word for mine. No one, not even the pastor, is my judge and jury. We should be spreading the word of love AND GRACE instead of constant correction. THIS IS WHY THE CHURCH IS DYING. WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LOVE.

Last thing, why should how we dress in “church” be any different than how we dress at work? At home? The church is just a building; brick, carpet, wires. The church is not holy. It’s a place where believers come together for encouragement. Jesus is in us – WE are the church. I’d be more concerned with the things that people are putting inside of their bodies (processed foods, fat, salt, sugar, nicotine, alcohol, drugs, caffeine), than what they do or don’t put on the outside. The things we put in the inside will kill us, and that’s way more important than making sure we are appeasing men with the way we look.

Love is the answer.
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