Honor One Another
A personal message to all who visit this blog :
I just want to share how often I am personally convicted by the words I send out. I do my best to hear what I believe God wants to speak to all of us in each blog post. Repeatedly, I find myself both convicted and challenged to go deeper in my relationship with him and to come higher in the way I walk out his precepts. While none of us will ever attain perfect obedience in every thing we say and do, I wholeheartedly believe that the Lord is greatly pleased with our hearts desire to love and follow him.
Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault! (Jude 1:24-25) NLT
Beloved children, I want to speak to you about honor today. If I ask you if you honor me, I know many of you will say yes. But do you realize that you are honoring me when you honor people made in my image? Likewise, when you dishonor your brothers and sisters, you are inadvertently dishonoring me.
I desire for you to treat one another with respect and dignity even if it means going beyond cultural norms. You do not honor one by dishonoring another. Don’t allow your feelings or experiences to decide who you will honor or not. I have crowned mankind with glory and honor and I command you to honor all men. That hasn’t changed. Every individual is highly valuable to me because my Son paid a great price to redeem each one by shedding his blood.
It has become almost mockery in society today to honor me and to honor my people. Do not allow honor to disappear from your relationship with me or from your family, your spouse, your church leaders, first responders, government leaders and God-ordained institutions. You are storing up treasures in heaven when you honor one another.
Honor will yield the fruit of blessing, favor and promotion. It results in a good and virtuous lifestyle in all aspects of society. When you treat people in a manner which demonstrates that they are valuable and when you seek to enhance the reputation of someone else, you are honoring them. Honor breeds honesty, which benefits all who practice it. People are healthier and more prosperous when they honor one another’s hard work and respect their property and belongings. Everyone feels safer when they know they are honored and treated with dignity. When healthy boundaries are enforced, life flourishes! There is less competition and covetousness and people can live more freely. Businesses thrive when there is mutual honor and honesty. Situations where people are vying for control in the workplace also diminish. In general, families and marriages experience fewer quarrels, people get along better and there’s less need to protect one’s valuables.
As you humble yourself and are responsive to me by heeding my commands in this area, I will answer your prayers. Make it your goal this week to outdo one another in showing honor.
SCRIPTURES
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. (1 Tim.1:17) NIV
Yet what honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than The Living God, crowned like kings and queens with glory and magnificence. (Ps.8:5-8) TPT
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. (Rom.13:1) NIV
In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5) NIV