Kim Kardashian Resolves to Dress More Modestly

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian, one of the queens of the me-centered pop culture, says her New Year’s resolutions include dressing more modestly. Following on the heels of her rapper husband Kanye West’s professed Christian conversion, earlier this year Kim journeyed to her homeland of Armenia to be “baptized” in an Orthodox church. A few weeks ago, Kanye asked Kim to dress more modestly, and though she wasn’t in agreement at the time, now she says, “I don’t know if it’s the fact that my husband has voiced that sometimes too sexy is just overkill, and he’s not comfortable with that. But I have kind of had this awakening myself. I realized I could not even scroll through Instagram in front of my kids without full nudity coming up on my feed pretty much all the time” (“Kim Kardashian Resolves,” Christian Headlines, Dec. 2, 2019). This is a good decision, as far as it might go, but it is more along the lines of a mid-life moral adjustment than biblical repentance. Biblical confession of sin is to agree unequivocally with God that a particular act is sin, and public sin must be confessed publicly. True repentance on the part of a Hollywood movie star, a supermodel, or a pop music diva would consist of a public confession that the indecent flaunting of herself is illicit by God’s holy standards and that her actions have contributed to an adulterous generation that is shaking its fist at Almighty God. God’s Word condemns “the attire of an harlot” and warns “that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” (Proverbs 7:10; Matthew 5:28). True repentance is a change of mind about God that results in a change of life. It is the Prodigal Son saying, “I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants” (Luke 15:18-19). Biblical salvation by grace teaches “that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (Titus 2:12), and, “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11). Biblical regeneration will reprove pop culture evils. Kim’s first marriage, which began with a multi-million dollar wedding, ended 72 days later. Her 2014 book featuring 2,000 selfies was titled Selfish. Our earnest prayer is that all of the Kardashians of this lost world would find true peace in Jesus Christ and be lights in an evil generation.

(Friday Church News Notes, December 20, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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