The Truth About Hair

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

THE TRUTH ABOUT HAIR

1 Cor 11:11-16

11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. 12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. 13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice — nor do the churches of God.

NIV

Even though because man is the head of the woman and because he is held accountable to God for his entire family, we can also see that in the eyes of God both men and woman are seen as equal, sinners in need of a savior. We can also see the reason for this is because we all were created by God. Although he formed man from the earth, and breathed life into him, he also created woman, just not from the earth, but instead from the man, yet because of the way He designed us, all other men would be conceived in a woman and thus be born from them. So it would make perfect sense that we are interdependent. But the real truth of all this is that we are all created by God. These words about hair must certainly be strictly written to those Corinthians for nothing in our culture resembles that at all. We have men who have long hair, women who have short hair, few if any women cover their heads and this whole idea is just not practiced at all, even in the church. Is that not just one of those rules and regulations anyway? But still a truth does speak out from here. The whole idea of us in any way putting more important on our self, especially our outward appearance above our devotion to God is right in the center of this truth. If any of us men think we are more important than women, or if their think they are more important than men, or if any of us think more highly of how we look than how we live, we are sadly mistaken. We need to see that God is God and we are his creation, period. We were nothing before God created us, and we cannot be anything without God. We need to see our relationship with Him is all due to Him and that nothing in our lives can ever be more important than Him, nothing! That is the truth.