Challenges To Living With Honour
Friday February 3, 2017
God commands us to honour our father and mother. This command may also be applied to our primary care givers. The honour we are to give our parents is not based on their parenting skills but on their position of authority over us. When we marry, we are told to honour our spouse and to keep the marriage bed pure. With regards to others, we are instructed to love one another and to honour others above ourselves. Integrity in these disciplines will be achieved when we first find respect for ourselves in the grace that God so generously pours out on us.
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 former lifestyle, we may have retaliated in anger and caused conflict when we were not treated with the respect we thought we deserved. We felt our worth had been devalued by whatever was said or done. While fighting for the honour we thought we deserved, were we prepared to treat those who mistreated us with the same honour that we expected to receive from 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)
Jesus reflected His Father’s character when He went about doing good and healing everyone, even those who mistreated Him and were under the power of the evil one. As we honour God and others, no matter how they behave, we will become the person God created us to be, a person who experiences honour.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, Help me to follow You in all my ways and to honour others above myself. I rest in the knowledge of Your word that says both riches and honour come from You. AMEN
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