At a recent academic team competition for Jewell, I picked up the January 9th issue of Sports Illustrated. It was in-between matches, so I flipped slowly page by page. On the “Letters to the Editor” page, there was a note about the forthcoming Swimsuit issue in February. In effect, the editors said that if anyone did not want to receive that issue, they could call the office. The magazine would not be mailed and the company would extend the subscription.
I certainly do not know how many men complained to Sports Illustrated about their swimsuit issue. But it is encouraging to see that enough men complained about it that SI made this decision. That should be very encouraging to those of us who still believe in modesty.
The Bible comments favorably on beautiful women. Abraham (Sarah), Isaac (Rebekah) and Jacob (Rachel) all had beautiful wives, as did David in Abigail. But like any attribute, beauty should be used wisely and not flaunted. Physical attraction – in particular when it is put on display with swimsuits – can cause men, even godly men, to have impure thoughts.
Part of the guilt belongs to the men. “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28). Job, the faithful man in the Old Testament, wrote: “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?” (Job 31:1).
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But part of the guilt also belongs to the woman. No one has the “right” to antagonize me and dare me to hit him for that antagonism. That is unfair and unrighteous. Similarly, no one has the “right” to wear whatever she wants to wear in public and then dare a man to think lustful thoughts. That too, is unfair and unrighteous. “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!” (Matthew 18:7).
The Christian woman (and man too) will think seriously about what she (he) wears – too low, too high, too tight, too loose. Sanctified common sense ought to prevail. I’ll have some thoughts on dancing on Thursday. By the way – a water park or beach does not make immodest clothing modest. It amazes me that a Christian woman would not answer her front door in her undergarments but then wear something less at a public beach! Lusting takes place at the water park, too.
–Paul Holland
