Be-Cast Episode 16: BE HONORING

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THIS WEEK’S VERSES:

“Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other.” (Romans 12:10)

“A gracious woman acquires honor: but cruel people are only interested in acquiring money. (Proverbs 11:16)

“Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.” (Proverbs 31:25)

A MESSAGE FROM MONICA:

She was a huge influence to me — I’m not sure I ever told her, but she was. I worked with her for a few years, and always marveled at her integrity and character. She had that innate and godly ability to be honest about how she was doing…if she was struggling or having a bad day…but never — not once ever — was disrespectful or malicious in her speech.

She called every single pastor by the title Pastor. Even my husband — and we were so low on the totem pole we literally just held it up. But in all her conversation to me, even if no one else was around, she referred to him as Pastor Greg.

I’d stop her — every time — and say,

“It’s just Greg! It’s so weird to hear you call him Pastor!”

And she’d reply,

“That’s his title. He’s earned it, and  I’m going to call him that!” 

Never mind that Greg was easily 15 years her junior and that we weren’t into titles and that I’d sigh with exasperation. She was going to honor him because of his position. And that always spoke volumes to me.

I’ve thought of her often in the course of preparing this week’s podcast and post. She possessed the virtue of honoring more than any other person I can think of…even with a boss that wasn’t deserving of respect, authorities who possessed low integrity themselves, co-workers that in my (naive) mind didn’t deserve to be called by their title.

But she was right. Every single time.

As we discussed in this week’s podcast, respect is earned based on someones characteristics…but honor…honor is a given. Honor is something we are required to show based on a person’s achievements, position or authority.

Honor does not care how we FEEL about honoring. It’s demanded anyway. (tweet that)

I’ve thought of her often in the course of preparing this week’s podcast and post. She was right. Every single time.

And I want to tell her thank you.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION:

1. Remember who you are. You are a child of God, a brother and sister of Jesus Christ.

2. Be aware of your trigger words. What words does Satan whisper to you to tempt you to withhold honor from others? For me, it can be “they don’t deserve…”, “you don’t deserve…”, “I’m above…” — the word deserve is a huge alert to me to be careful about where my mind is going. Stop in that moment and whisper a quick prayer that God would help you show honor.

3. Identify one person you need to show honor to this week. It could be a child, friend, spouse or family member. Dr. Greg Smalley says to just wake up and decide that person is one of the most valuable people on the earth to us, and spend just five minutes praying that God will show you what you can do to show honor to them. God will show you!

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

1. 5 Practical Ways to Honor Your Leaders. Wonderful article.

2. Honor in Marriage. Great article for honoring your spouse by Dr. Greg Smalley.

3. Teaching Your Children How to Honor. Such a great article in how to cultivate the characteristic of honor in our children.

4. Creating a Culture of Honor. This is the article Monica referenced — it’s a five-week series with great content!