Our Favorite Proverbs: Proverbs 16:31

Welcome to your moment of hope. I'm Jen Houston joined by Pastor David and

Marilyn Chadwick. We're in a series that we've been calling our favorite

proverbs. Today we're going to take a look at Proverbs 1631. And I have a question

David. Certainly I'm asking this on behalf of a friend, not myself. But why is

gray hair so good? Well, you know, I'm not going to speak to the gals who

are listening or around this table who might use a little touch up here in

the air to avoid the gray hair. But we will admit that there's something

beautiful about gray hair probably ought to say here with Proverbs 1631 gray

hair is a crown of glory. It is gained in a righteous life that those who may

not have hair on the top of their head aren't necessarily unrighteous. You know,

I don't want to suggest that at all because my daddy bless his heart was his

bald as a cue ball on the top of his head. Unfortunately my brother Howard and I

both were able to keep hours for all of our lives. But the point being, I think,

that there's some things that can only be learned and earned by the ages of

the years that pass by. And I think that's what this point's trying to make. I

sometimes joke with people that on the top of my hair, it's more gray than ever

before. But I earned every single one of them. And I think righteousness is not

earned. I think sometimes it is though learned. Righteousness is a gift from

God by grace through faith. But also when you learn how to live rightly, you

then have a more righteous life because you've learned how to avoid certain

potholes that you know you don't want to step in. Again, it's that joke

Maryland reviews before with Anna Gray sour now 15 year old granddaughter came

to me one time and said, Pappy, that's my granddaddy nickname. How'd you get so

wise? And I said by making a lot of mistakes. And that's the truth of the

matter. I think with each one of my gray hairs, it's an evidence of something

I've learned in life that gives me, I think, a crown of glory so that I'm

wiser than most people younger than I am simply because life has allowed me to

live through the year. So gray hair, I'm all for it. I think it's a wonderful

gift from God. I hope people when they look at me think that's a guy that earned

every single one of them. He's got some wisdom. I want to learn from him.

Maryland your thoughts. Well, David, you know how much I love watching Miss

Marple series. You know, I got the Christie's famous character. And remember

that time that somebody asked her Miss Marple, how did you get so smart? And she

looked at them and she said, I got old, you know, and so it's the same principle.

And I really think there should, we should celebrate this. I think it was

a wonderful song. Psalm 71 18 that talks about this even though I'm old and

gray, do not leave me God. I will tell the children and the next generation

about your power. And I just think there's so many things that you couldn't do

when you were earlier. There's some real value to this season of life.

And we encourage people in our church moments. I hope church, if you're younger,

find an older person that you can just sit down and get to know and pick their

brain. And there is just something because you've got gray hair that give you

wisdom that you can share with other people. And they can pick your brain too

because we need each other. You know, when I look in the mirror and see my

gray hairs coming in, I'm like, I forget how old I am because I still feel it.

I've heard as you age, you still feel so young on the inside, but you know what?

We've learned we've lived a lot of life when you start seeing gray hairs

sprout. Yeah, and that's why God gave parents to children. I mean, it really is

that simple. He gave parents who are 20 to 30 in our case, Marilyn, even 40

years older than our children. And we could guide them well because we had

lived life well in our gray hairs were earned. Well, you know, Daddy and I are

working on a book together about his life before, during an after-war

to and some of his time as a submarine sailor. And we were talking the other day

and he said, you know, I still feel young on the inside. He's 98. And he said,

I still feel young on the inside. And he said, somebody asked me the other day

what I would change. And he looked at me and he said, you know what? I've just

decided I like being me. And I thought, if you can say that at 98, that gives

encouragement to the generations following after encouraged me for sure.

Well, I encourage everyone to be a part of a multi-generational church because

when there is the passion of the young, with the wisdom of the old, you have a

great church to be a part of.