Deceased singer, Aaliyah, once sung “Age ain’t nothing but a number. How accurate is that? Does the Bible support that statement?

Let’s take a moment and examine this…

Age is nothing but a number. Old age does not signify maturity, though we like to promote that by saying gray hair means wisdom.

Ironically the Bible does not say that gray hair means wisdom. Instead, in Proverbs 16:31, the Bible says that gray hair is “a crown of splendor.”

Splendor does not mean wisdom.

Those who make it to the stage in life where they have gotten gray hair means that they have had many experiences in life. But experience does not necessarily mean that one will act and wisdom. We just needed to clarify that.

So a person can have gray hair and still be a baby. They might have gray hair naturally, but spiritually they can be a baby.

The Apostle Paul helps us to recognize adults babies. This is what he said at First Corinthians chapter 3.

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly —mere infants in Christ.I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? – 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 NIV

Those who are “still worldly” are called “infants in Christ.”  Then Paul goes on to describe the behavior of the world calling them jealous and quarreling.

To identify a baby in Christ you simply need to listen to them speak for out of the heart the mouth speaks. You can identify the maturity level of a person by how they speak.

The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:11,
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. – 1 Corinthians 13:11 NIV

So the nature of our conversation will identify us and our maturity.

The Apostle Paul wrote in Hebrews 6:1 that we should “press on to maturity.”

So maturity is not a given. It is something that we work out. (see Philippians 2:12)

With that being said…
… we should be able to identify those around us. Especially because walking in the spirit requires that we also see in the spirit too.

Regarding seeing in the spirit, Jesus said this…

” You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.” – John 8:1 NIV

…and the Apostle Paul said this under inspiration…

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.

Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.

And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. “- 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 NIV

Have you judged a person based on their age?
You might not want to do that going forward.