We’ve been talking about the honor principle all week long!  Honor treats people as priceless, valuable and as one of the most important things in the world.  We know God commands us to do that, but it’s hard for us to do because we are hardwired against it.  

Here’s another thing about honor that’s important, honor is reciprocal.  In other words, if you give it, then chances are really good it’s going to come back to you.  If you give dishonor, then you’re going to get more of that, plus some, coming back to you.  Jesus said in Luke 6, Give and it will be given to you a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be poured into your lap.  For the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  

So in other words, if I’m giving large portions of honor to my wife, it just incentivizes her to honor me back.  She’s going to love that and receive that, but if I’m giving dishonoring comments and hateful selfishness – attacking, negative and critical, then that’s going to come back to me.  If you do honor, you promote honor and propagate honor it becomes an honor cycle.  It’s a beautiful and wonderful thing.  That’s what a relationship should be like.  If you give dishonor, everything gets crazy, and the relationship unravels.  

Unfortunately, I’ve met with lots of couples, and by the time they get to my office, they have dishonored each other so long, for so many years and there’s so much hurt, that it’s like a ball of yarn that’s all tangled up and is all over the place, so don’t do that!  People go crazy pursuing the latest TV, the latest this or the latest that, and they crazy for things, but it’s all just stuff and is really worthless.  At the end of the day, it’s all going to end up in the junk pile anyway.  

Why not pursue honor?  Pursue the things that will build your home and will last for generations.  Ask God this week to make your home a home of honor.  Next week, I’m going to tell you exactly how to do that, but today, ask God to help you have a home of honor and he’ll do it.

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