Good Christian Living

By Gerald Hochstetler

November 1, 2025

Several years ago, I heard the preacher man mention that things really went to pot in this country about the time that women started wearing pants. Interesting, I thought. I know technology and evil have accelerated in the last seventy or eighty years or so, but really, pants? We always like to blame people and objects for our faults.

Can we go back a spell and look into the Bible? We will see that things went to pot long before women started wearing pants. Six chapters into the Bible, God was grieved that He had made us. That’s pretty bad.

They had no pants, no smartphone, and no TikTok; just trees, sticks, stones, and things of that sort. Maybe a few heffalumps were walking the earth. Six chapters into the Bible, and the people were committing many sins. People’s thoughts were only evil continually. According to the Bible, God was grieved and sorry He had made us.

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Gen 6:56).

So what did God do?

He set out to save us just as He knew He would before He ever made us. He sent His Son to bring us back, and this time He would birth us anew. He would put Himself in us so He could live His good life through us.

And that, my friend, is good Christian living. God living in and through people. Our job is to flow with Him.

So what about women wearing pants?

I am confident our good, Godly women can figure out what to wear. God has filled His women with His Spirit. The Holy Spirit will teach them.