"A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man."
1 Corinthians 11:7
"Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering."
First Corinthians 11:14-15
There are many ways to look masculine or feminine. It depends on specific men and women and their expression of the masculine and feminine. But one thing is certain, God wants men to look like men and women to look like women. Undeniably. Irresistibly. Irrefutably. Clear masculinity and femininity.
Here are some ways to emphasize your God given gender distinction. For this discussion, my focus is on the face of men and women. It's our faces/heads, after all, by which we are primarily identified or known. And from what the word of God says above, God gave us as men and women the hair on our heads to express His glory, and the glory of His glory.
FOR MEN
I mentioned in Part 2 your facial hair as distinctly masculine. But what if you're not a "hairy man?" What if you don't grow facial hair? All is not lost. In the Bible, Isaac's son Esau was very hairy, but his other son Jacob was smooth skinned. Both were men; both were masculine. So if your masculinity is expressed in being hairy, then be hairy. Yet if you're smooth skinned, you know how to express that in the masculine. You may cut all of your hair off and display a chiseled face and powerful skull. Or your masculinity may be expressed in the fierceness of your eyes. You know what is distinctly masculine about your face. So does your wife or girlfriend or friends. Display for God's glory your unique physical masculinity, because God sees this as His glory. (click HERE for part 4)
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