Leviticus 19:32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a culture that has declared war on the past. It is a culture of chronological snobbery, a juvenile rebellion that imagines all wisdom was born yesterday and all previous generations were populated by knuckle-dragging simpletons. We see it in the tearing down of statues, the renaming of buildings, and the sneering contempt for tradition. It is an ancient sin, a foundational rebellion against the created order. At the root of this rebellion is a hatred for authority, and there is no more visible, tangible, and unavoidable symbol of the flow of authority through time than a gray head of hair. We spend billions of dollars trying to hide the effects of age, dyeing our hair, smoothing our wrinkles, and pretending that the accumulation of years brings with it nothing but decay. The world sees an old man and sees a liability, a drain on resources, someone to be warehoused and forgotten.