Revealing dress promotes lust

The Blight of Spring

by Frank Chesser

Spring! The very word breathes with life. It exudes with joy, excitement and promise. Spring leaps from the womb of winter with a song of jubilation on its lips. Each day is birthed in a symphony of song. Trees bud and flowers bloom,  painting the landscape in variegated color. The beauty of spring is blighted by the contamination of humanity’s touch. The advent of the sun’s warm glow commences a disrobing  process among men. As a serpent sheds its skin, so man discards his apparel.

Various degrees of nudity mar the resplendence of nature. There is no spiritual attractiveness in an ocean of human flesh. The innocence of Eden is a memory forever buried in the  graveyard of the past. Sin stained the public exposure of the body with irrevocable shame (Gen. 2:7). Expected is the world’s acceptance of the promenade of the body in a semi-attired state. However, whether felt or not, there is a deep sense of ignominy attached to such public display of the human form.

Revealing dress promotes lust. It creates a civil war in the mind of man struggling to maintain purity of thought. It is a lascivious act that fosters carnality, undermines spirituality and nullifies influence for good. It is an expression of contempt for God’s call to “be ye holy in all manner of life” (1 Peter 1:15). It is a grievous sin that bars the gates of heaven and paves the road to hell.

The Christian life is a distinctive life. It is different. Aping the world in modes of dress negates that distinctive element that enables the Christian to serve as a Spiritual lighthouse in a sea of sin. One cannot “adorn the doctrine” (Titus 2:10), with insufficient attire to modestly adorn his own body. There is no “gospel” in a lifestyle that destroys purity and encourages lewdness. An incessant public parade of bare flesh is a loathsome sight. Such conduct is truly the “blight of spring.”