Giving Honor Where Honor Is Due
John 5:43-47 Amplified Bible (AMP)
43 I have come in My Father’s name and with His power,
and you do not receive Me [your hearts are not open to Me, you give Me no
welcome]; but if another comes in his own name and his own power and
with no other authority but himself, you will receive him and give him
your approval. 44 How is it possible for you to believe [how
can you learn to believe], you who [are content to seek and] receive praise and
honor and glory from one another, and yet do not seek the praise and
honor and glory which come from Him Who alone is God? 45 Put
out of your minds the thought and do not suppose [as some of you are
supposing] that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses
you—it is Moses, the very one on whom you have built your hopes [in whom you
trust].46 For if you believed and relied on Moses, you
would believe and rely on Me, for he wrote about Me [personally]. 47 But
if you do not believe and trust his writings, how then will you believe and
trust My teachings? [How shall you cleave to and rely on My words?]
My God daughter jested this morning that nobody but Jesus
and Politics could get me on Facebook.
She is right in away. I don’t
give a lot of time and effort to being in people’s space of Facebook, or
spending a lot of time telling my life story there either; I feel that my use
of social media should be to encourage, share, edify, uplift, exhort and on occasion
express a thought or something I feel God has shared or imparted to me in my
own devotional time. I have to admit I
also enjoy the interaction on debate nights, BUT I try my hardest to use social
media in a responsible manner, and I try my hardest not to bring any neither
shame nor distain on the name of God, or do I attempt to bring more attention
and honor to myself, or other people than to God. You see, people are important to me but they
should never be more important than God and living for Him and making His name
greater than my own.
All too often we say it is about God but too frequently
it is about our agenda and coming off looking as if God is in front when all
the while our thoughts of how we can be seen, heard and identified as doing so
much for the kingdom are in the forefront.
I remember my old Pastor used to say “you can be so busy doing the work
of the Lord you miss the Lord of the work.”
Everyone that is loud in their beliefs is not necessarily giving honor
and the glory to God, or championing His causes or thoughts, many times we are
assuming we know the will of God; we migrate to individuals just because they
have said the name of the Lord or said something that sounds Godly, and we give
them more credence and honor then we do God.
We rely more on the words of man then we do seeking the will of God and
searching for Him and His perfect will and desire for us. We have become a group of people that all too
often lean more to the words and opinions of man than we do to the words and
wisdom of God. We read His word and
twist it to fit our agenda or need, instead of asking God what does this mean
to me today. We are giving so much
credit and honor to ourselves and people; we are missing Honoring God in all
that we do, in the decisions that we make and the life that we are living.
There is a song that says, “Let my life be a worship let
my life be a praise let my life be a blessing bringing Glory to your name.” It should be the honor of God that our life
and our living is centered on, not the honor of oneself and the furtherance of
one’s agenda. We should feel blessed to
be God’s hype man and the one that seeks Him out, seeks His direction and
wisdom; the one that seeks to make His name greater and more of a household
name than any basketball, football, baseball, actor, actress, rapper or
politician. God should be Glorified and all Honor should be His. It is when we submit to Him and takes up His
cause and take up our cross and follow Him that He will make us to sit with
great men and women, make our name great, give us favor with Himself and man
and give us peace that surpasses all understanding!
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