honour

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12:10 NLT

Take delight in honouring each other. What a command! We see people honoured for music, sports, movies, knighthoods,  annual Australians of the year and such. However, here, we are urged to honour each other, and do so with delight.

We must be honest that there are traits in people we would rather denigrate, not honour. Yet,  Jesus looked for faith and spoke highly of it. The man with demonised son cried," I believe, help my unbelief!" In other words he was owning up to imperfect faith. Yet, Jesus did not demean him, He answered the man's plea, and healed the son.

Jesus did chastise His disciples for lack of faith and He also severely chastised the Pharisees and Saducees for their arrogant refusal to acknowledge Him as the Son of God. 

However, Jesus did give honour where honour was due. He respected those who demonstrated faith.  Faith moved Him. 

Today, let us honour! Amen!