Silver-haired Crown

The silver-haired head is a crown of glory,If it is found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 16:31 (NKJV)

Let me speak a word to you ladies over fifty. If you embrace this phase of your life, it can be the sweetest of all. You can be a light shining ahead of the young women all around you, because there are many young moms who don’t have anyone to give them godly advice. They don’t have someone to teach them how to be in the Word for themselves. They don’t have anyone to teach them to respect or love their husbands. They don’t know how to be homemakers, or keep a budget, or prepare balanced meals.

In Titus 2:3-5 the older women are told to “be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they admonish the young women to love their husbands and children, be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed” (NKJV).

So I’d like to challenge some of my grey-haired sisters. Let’s take the next years of our life and ask the Lord how we can invest them. Ask God to show you several young women whom you can encourage. Is there a young wife you can invite over to teach her to make casseroles or pie crust or to shop for bargains at the grocery store? Is there a young woman you can take under your wing for accountability during her engagement process? Is there a young pastor’s wife you can pray for every day and send notes of encouragement? Because “the silver-haired head is a crown of glory, if it’s found in the way of righteousness.”

Make It Personal . . . Live It Out!

If you are a young woman, indeed you are living in very challenging times. You are inundated from every angle by false information and perceptions of womanhood and motherhood, marriage and success. You indeed need someone older and wiser to encourage and guide you as Elizabeth encouraged Mary. The Lord has raised up many mentors who are available through books, websites, and videos. Let me mention two of my favorites: Fern Nichols (Moms in Prayer International, www.MomsInPrayer.org) and Emilie Barnes (author of Survival for Busy Women).

One Year Bible Reading

1 Kings 7:1-51; Acts 7:30-50; Psalm 128:1-6; Proverbs 16:31-33