Hey everybody!  We’ve been talking all week about how to get honor in your home, and I hope you’re getting this in your life.  

I just want to challenge you before I give you this last one, I want to challenge you to forward these on to friends that you know who maybe are struggling in their marriage, maybe they are struggling with their kids and things are difficult for them; forward these on!  You probably know ten friends that would be encouraged reading this series on honor, so go ahead and forward these on.

Now here’s the last way to get honor into your home.  We talked about affection.  We talked about our words, so what else?  Peace, this is it - peace.  You are honoring your spouse when you seek to have a home of peace.  Honor grows when you seek to resolve conflict and not just let it go underground.  

I remember in our early years of marriage, we would just let things build up.  We wouldn’t ever resolve anything, we would just sweep it under the rug and then it just got so huge.  It was the volcano approach to conflict management.  It would get so big that it would just blow up with shrapnel everywhere and that never got us anywhere!  We always left more injured and certainly not closer together.   

The Bible says in Romans 12:16, Live in harmony with one another.  Live in harmony with one another.  Repay no evil for evil.  Vs 18: As much as it depends on you, live at peace with all people.   In other words, don’t retaliate, don’t hurt back, don’t say things that drive wedges, don’t harbor bitterness and don’t let it seethe and color everything.  Get all that stuff out by seeking to resolve issues in a way that says, You’re more important to me than anything else.  I want to win you more than I want to win this argument.  I want to win you and our relationship more than I want to win this argument.  You are so valuable and our relationship is so valuable that nothing is worth jeopardizing it.  

Maybe you need to go see a pastor.  Maybe you need to go to a Christian counselor.  You’ve got to do whatever it takes because that person is so important to you.  Do whatever it takes, and when you do that, you’re showing honor.  

I hope that your home will become a home of honor as you put these things into practice. Listen, come to church on Sunday because you need to be around other people who are seeking to have homes of honor.

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