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{"id":56,"date":"2023-08-07T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/legacyowners\/?p=56"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:35:42","slug":"how-honor-can-change-your-whole-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/legacyowners\/2023\/08\/how-honor-can-change-your-whole-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Honor Can Change Your Whole World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cHonor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.\u201d<\/em>
\n1 Peter 2:17 ESV\u202c\u202c<\/em><\/div>\n

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Honor is a concept that has often been misapplied, mistaught, and misunderstood. Often we think of honor as a boy scout mentality of \u201cdoing the right thing.\u201d In some other cases, it\u2019s been used as a tool to coerce obedience and respect to authority. As human beings, we often tend to twist the things of God from a basis of freedom and relationship, to one of control and obligation.\u00a0But honor is actually deeply connected to how we orient ourselves to God and the people around us, and to how deeply we can receive the rewards of those relationships.<\/div>\n

Honor is our\u00a0

heart attitude<\/span> and the\u00a0

value<\/span> we assign to an individual, along with the degree that we are

willing to give to and receive<\/span> from that person.<\/strong> Honor is incredibly difficult when we carry an offense toward someone, or when we have an inaccurate perception of who they are or the nature of our relationship. Honor requires us to pursue God\u2019s eyes and to learn to see others in the fullness of how He made them, not as they appear in the natural. Honor respects the spiritual reality of an individual above their current state, struggles, or appearance.<\/div>\n

Honor also does carry with it a sense of elevating the other person, counting them as greatly valuable and important. However, it\u2019s important to note that honoring someone above myself doesn\u2019t diminish my own worth or value. Honor isn\u2019t groveling or becoming subservient to someone, it\u2019s simply recognizing the value, giftings or authority that person has and treating them from that perspective.\u00a0Honor cannot be demanded or coerced. Like grace, it\u2019s a relational dynamic that must be freely given to truly be called honor.<\/div>\n

Here are four reasons for giving honor to another person:<\/strong><\/div>\nHonor based on Respect<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n****

1) \u201cHonor everyone\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

There is a general honor that is due to everyone who is made in God\u2019s image (that\u2019s all of us). This type of honor just recognizes that all of us are valuable, worth protecting, worth allowing the opportunity for connection and growth, and worth refraining from slander, gossip, offense and exclusion. It\u2019s the most basic level of honor, and yet still one we often struggle with, because by nature it includes people we disagree with, don\u2019t understand, or even those we consider enemies. I may not receive input or wisdom on a deep level from someone in this sphere, but I still choose to value them and bring life where I have the capacity.<\/p>\n

Honor based on Relationship<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

2) \u201c\u2026Love the Brotherhood\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

I honor relationships differently, based on their nature. The way I honor my wife is different than how I honor any other woman. The way I honor my father is different than other men in my life. It\u2019s the same for those I ask to be mentors in my life. When I ask someone to be a mentor in my life, I honor that relationship differently than others. I allow their words and insight to carry greater weight, and I invest more time and energy in relationships that are closer to me. Honoring the relationship also means maintaining trust and connection by protecting the confidentiality of those relationships. I\u2019m not going to go expose the deep secrets my wife and I discuss, or take the failures of my friends and make them public. I\u2019ll encourage and bring life into those relationships, and challenge them toward health and vulnerability, but I won\u2019t make our private conversations a casual point of discussion with other people.<\/p>\n

Honor based on Anointing<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

3) \u201c\u2026Fear God\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

In Matthew 10:41, Jesus says, \u201cThe one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet\u2019s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person\u2019s reward.\u201d This sets the stage for some core principles of honor. First, it\u2019s right to honor those that God is honoring.<\/strong> When someone is walking in the favor and power of God, it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re always right, and it doesn\u2019t remove their flaws. But it does mean that God is honoring them with influence and impact, and a right response is to respect that and honor that person. I usually approach people in this category with the question, \u201cwhat can I learn from them? How can I incorporate the lessons of their intimacy with Jesus, or the boldness that they walk in?\u201d Basically, I ask \u201chow can I get what they have?\u201d<\/strong> Not out of jealousy or envy, or a desire to be better than them, but out of a passion to personally walk as close to God as possible and to have everything He wants to make available in my life. When I\u2019m exposed to someone who is walking in a different or greater anointing of power or authority, it encourages me to find what I can learn and grow in through honoring them. Let me be clear, this isn\u2019t about putting someone on a pedestal, but it\u2019s also important that we don\u2019t cut people down or discount them just because they have human flaws and imperfect personalities. When God moves through someone in a powerful way, I\u2019m going to chase down the gems in them that He sees so I can cultivate them in my own life.<\/strong>\u00a0Another powerful principle we can glean from this verse is that when we receive someone\u2019s gifting with honor, we have a chance to enter into the reward and favor that that person is walking in!\u00a0Honor actually unlocks our access to a greater level of intimacy and authority, if we\u2019re willing to walk in humility and use it wisely.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honor based on Position<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

4) \u201c\u2026Honor the Emperor.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

The bible teaches that we are to honor those in authority. Whether it\u2019s a boss, parent or president, we\u2019re called to respect the positions of authority around us. This is an area where honor has been severely lacking in our culture, but it\u2019s also an area where the idea of honor has been significantly abused. Remember, honor doesn\u2019t mean unquestioning obedience, but it does mean that we give weight and respect to the authorities we\u2019re under, whether we were able to choose them or not. I can vote for who becomes president, but if my candidate doesn\u2019t win, that\u2019s not a free pass to show disrespect to that leader. I can disagree with the person, and still have an obligation to honor the position. Treating ungodly leaders with honor actually enabled Daniel, Esther and many others in the bible to gain favor, and ultimately to change the course of affairs in the whole country.<\/strong> Instead of speaking out against the evil of those leaders, they looked for the bright spots and they brought\u00a0 the wisdom of heaven into the circumstances around them. There are also some leaders that we do get to choose more directly. We get to choose where we work, go to church, who our mentors or teachers are going to be. When those people let us down, we have options, but to be wise we have to seek the counsel of the Holy Spirit. We can stay the course and continue under those leaders, or we can choose to find new leadership if the influence we\u2019re under is too difficult or unhealthy. If a leader is acting in a way that is directly ungodly or illegal, then we need to report it. Honoring one person should never require us to dishonor someone else.<\/strong> But we need to make sure it doesn\u2019t become our mission to \u201ctake them down.\u201d That said however, most of our struggles with leaders are less in regard to immoral or illegal acts, but instead often focused on personality or character-based disagreements.\u00a0<\/a>The worst thing we can do, is to choose to stay under leaders that we struggle with, and yet gripe and complain, and let honor die.\u00a0<\/strong>If you can\u2019t stay under a leader, then don\u2019t. But walk away with honor, and don\u2019t make it your mission to destroy or spread negativity toward a leader who has wronged you. But if you choose to stay, honor the position. Learn and grow where you can and be thankful and mindful of the strengths of your leader rather than focusing on their weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Honor is one of the most foundational lessons in receiving promotion, increased understanding, and favor in life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> I get the joy of choosing to honor imperfect people for the value of relationship, growth, and the mutual encouragement it brings. You can love people and not love God, but it\u2019s impossible to truly love God and not love people. Honor is love put into action. It crystallizes the mentality of being a servant of all, and it recognizes that all people are valuable. It also recognizes that where God has focused authority, anointing and wisdom on certain people, we have an opportunity, through honor, to partake of their blessing. When you honor those God has honored, you can receive part of the reward that they are walking in.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"***********
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