Girls Gone Wise 8: Body Language

Point of Contrast 8: Body Language
To Flirt or Not to Flirt, that is the Question

Have you seen the beauty pageants featuring little girls as contestants? Mary begins this chapter in GGW with how the little girls are taught to flash their eye lashes and sway their hips in front of the judges. They are being taught to give the seductive look a woman gives when she is inviting a man to look at her sexually. God's reactions to seductive women have been recorded numerous places in Scripture and His take on the "flirt" is anything but amusing. He chooses to dish out very harsh punishment to the Israelite women who so dazzled themselves. Listen to this: 'The Lord says "the women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles. Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion, the Lord will make their scalps bald." ( Isaiah 3:16-17) The passage goes on to address the excessive adornment of the women, but you have to see that the first thing God condemned was the way they were carrying themselves and the way they were using their eyes.

Designer Insights

Read Ephesians 5:3 Paul says there must not even be a ______ of sexual immorality.
Would you consider intense flirting a way of hinting at a provocative invitation?

There are two ways to be charming; a woman can be genuinely gracious and have a heart to serve or she could have a charm that is seductive, using her feminine powers to draw attention to herself. Proverbs 31:30 speaks to the second kind of charm. What does it say?

Read Proverbs 6:25 What is the advice of the sage Father to his son about the woman who flirts?

Maybe this is all new to you and you have never considered this issue before, then consider this a place to gain awareness of how to conduct yourself for the future.
Are there any ways that your behavior needs to change to avoid sending sensual messages?