Challenges To Living With Honour
Friday August 12, 2016
God commands us to honour our father and mother. This command may also be applied to our primary care givers. Honour is not based on our caregivers’ parenting skills but on their position of authority over us. We are also commanded to honour our spouse and to keep the marriage bed pure. We are instructed to love one another and to honour others above ourselves. Integrity in these disciplines will be achieved when, through the grace that God generously pours out, we first respect ourselves.
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. (Exodus 20:12; Hebrews 13:4; Romans 12:10 NIV)
In our life without God, we may have retaliated in anger and caused strife when we were not treated with the respect we thought we deserved. In our mind, our worth had been devalued by what was said or done, and we felt that our dignity had suffered. Sometimes we retaliated by trying to “set the person or persons right” about the honour they should have given us. When fighting for the honour we thought we deserved, we often did not treat others with the same respect we wanted to receive from them. God wants our lives to reflect His image. Jesus reflected His Father’s character when He went about doing good and healing everyone who was under the power of the evil one. Are we willing, like Jesus was, to look towards the welfare of our family, our friends and those around us? How can we honour them?
The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.” (Psalm 91:14-16 NLT) God is willing to help us be the person He created us to be--a person who experiences honour as we honour Him and others.
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