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Honor

Honor: The esteem due or paid worth; high estimation. A testimony of esteem: any expression of respect or of high estimation by words or actions. To reverence; to manifest the highest veneration for, in words and actions; to entertain the most exalted thoughts of; to adore.
*From the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary

What does God say about Honor?
Exodus 20:12 (The Message) 
12 Honor your father and mother so that you'll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you. 



1 Samuel 2:30 (English Standard Version) 
30Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares:(A) 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,'(B) but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Philippians 4:8 (New Living Translation) 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 





Why is Honor important? 
To be a person who exemplifies honor is a lighthouse for the world to see that we live for an audience of one and shine that light to point the way to Jesus Christ who is the only way, truth and life. Every day we are faced with decisions. Whether in the safety of our homes or out in the work force, or in a school room we face the same challenges; will we choose to do the right thing or the wrong thing? No matter how old we get those choices never stop and yet hopefully with experience and a close walk with God we learn to navigate ourselves and our loved ones toward a higher standard of living. Honor truly is taught and caught in the home. It is our first opportunity to gaze upon our children and have them gleam from our example how to show honor. Its shown in how we treat each other to what we do when no one is watching to how we communicate with one another. Honor is very important to establish as the foundation for why we do what we do. We truly want to plant the seed of bringing glory to God and faithfully growing in our relationships with those in our lives with a heart and tone of respect. We must set the boundaries according to God's principles and stand guard against any attempt to dismantle the honor in our homes. It all begins and begets from how we teach our children to treat us, how we treat them, and how we choose to live for God in all that we do. This all is done in "a keeping it real" kind of way not "a holier than thou" kind of attitude. Yes we are human and God planned it that way! But we can choose to reconcile our ways to him daily and perhaps moment by moment in reverencing those in authority over us to simple decisions that we make with money, time, love, and service. What we show honor to our children will most likely show honor to so we must with great caution and privilege do our very best as to not confuse or mislead those following in our footsteps. To take the awesome challenge that God has entrusted us with and lean upon him for strength in doing so. The outcome can only be glorious and more than we could ever imagine. So invest the time in living at God's incredible standard and reap the blessings of his richest reward...a life lived with up-most adoration to our creator and king of kings.



Book/Movie Tools:
"Fireproof"- this movie is an excellent choice for ages 8 and over. 

The choices that we make our displayed in this God honoring depiction of a fire fighter and his wife with life struggles and what happened when they chose to do it God's way.





Practical Ideas/Activities:
Posting an American flag on your front porch or walkway. Teaching the value of how to treat the flag, why its important and what it represents to us as Americans.


Circle family time: Each member of the family says an honorable word of encouragement to another family member. Repeat this until every member has shared something honorable with one another.


Post some verses on HONOR around the house; on the refrigerator, a bathroom mirror or in someone's lunch bag or brief case. Just a simple reminder of God's words on honor.


Have a guest of honor week in your house. Draw a name from those living in your home and then treat them with extra honor in the home for one week as if they were the president or of royalty.


Choose to speak words of life, encouragement in tones of kindness and respect rather than words of death in tones of discouragement and demean. Make it a daily goal to be careful little mouth what you say! (a Sunday school song that many of us can still remember)