This month, my team was challenged by our Squad Leaders to honor all people we interact with. The following is an excerpt from Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack Frost. This passage has been something I have been meditating on for some time now, and wanted to share!
Honor involves a decision that is made to put love into action, to give a person a position of high value and worth. Even when we have been disappointed, hurt, or wounded by a person, honor chooses to make a decision not to respond in kind. No matter what is felt coming from another person, honor chooses to not expose but speak words that give grace to the hearer. Honor views each person as a precious gift of God’s creation and grants the position that is worthy of great respect. Honor chooses not to respond with an unwholesome word or tone.
Not to give honor is to assign dishonor. Judgment, resentment, anger, exposure, sarcasm, criticism, comparisons, favoritism, jealousy, selfishness, envy, and racism are weapons of dishonor that are used against those who are considered of little value or worth.
Each time we have a point of contact or interaction with another person, we have a decision to make. We will either arm ourselves with a weapon of dishonor, or we will give an unmerited gift of honor. Have you noticed there’s no middle ground? We can be 100 percent right in our evaluation of a person’s faults or weaknesses or how they’ve disappointed us or how they have not matched up to our expectations, but love covers and does not expose others’ weaknesses or whine about them.
Learning to honor in all situations is challenging!
