GRAY HAIR BY ITSELF IS NO CROWN
Solomon wrote during an age when elders were honored and gray hair was considered a crown. But Solomon made clear that age alone was not sufficient for such glory. For without righteousness, the elderly are perhaps even more “laden with iniquity” (Gill) than the young. For they have had longer to grow deeper roots of bitterness and hardness of heart.
Today, when hair color comes in a box and looking young is considered the greater glory, Solomon’s proverb is even more apt. Yet the one who has grown gray, while walking by faith on the way of righteousness, will one day indeed wear a crown of glory that fadeth not away (1 Pet. 5:4).
PRAYER: Dear Father, we want to grow more like Jesus. Keep us from growing older without growing in righteousness. As we become silver-haired, may we seek to honor You more and more with our lives. Until that day when we receive that crown of glory, in Jesus’ name, amen.