INTRODUCTION

God made you! He either made you a male or a female (Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
See All...; Matthew 19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
See All...). As such, He expects each of us to act, look, and live like what He made us in every way. Ever more frequently, the world and the Devil have blurred the lines of distinction between male and female. One of the most grievous outcomes of the blurring of distinctions between male and female has resulted in the public’s acceptance of the sin which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God condemned it then and condemns it no less today. The Lord wants men and women to be distinct and look differently in every possible way. As such, He created the genders with obvious physical differences. He even admonished each gender to bear clear and distinct differences in length of hair (1 Corinthians 11:14-15 [14] Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? [15] But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
See All...) and commanded them to maintain obvious distinctions in apparel (Deuteronomy 22:5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For children): Doing the opposite of what God says is rebellion and pride. It will always harm us and cause us to miss out on God’s intended blessings. Absalom was proud of his long hair. It eventually cost him his life (2 Samuel 18:9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
  See All..., 14-15). Mary used her long hair to show honour to Jesus. Could she have done this if her hair was the length of a man’s (John 12:3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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• (For everyone): Why would the Lord create male and female distinctly and then be satisfied for them losing their distinctions? What are some of these distinctions that have been lost that need to be restored to societies?
• What does the word abomination mean? What kind of clothes might pertain to a man? What kind of clothes might be considered a woman’s garment?

PRAYER NEEDS

• Ask God to help you to distinguish yourself as a male or female.
• Ask God to help you refrain from questioning how He made you.

HYMN

SUBMISSIVELY,O LORD, WE'D BOW

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