Mar
27
My Honor Depends
Filed Under Devotional
I’ve read many Christian marriage and relationship books. The good ones always start with an explanation of how men and women are simply different. There are different thinking patterns and different ways of processing information. A vast majority of our communication breakdowns involve crossed wires due to this difference.
The basic idea is that men seek respect and honor from those around them and tend to give respect and honor to those they care for and admire. Women, on the other hand, are built on love. They seek love and give love. I happen to agree with this assessment, although I’m still seeking the balance between forcing myself to lead with love with my wife and following my natural instincts to lead with honor with the men around me.
Still, all of this reminds me that honor and respect are valuable currency in male relationships. They are what we trade in and we instinctively know how that economy works. It wasn’t until I came across this verse, though, that it was so obviously clear to me that I need God for my honor as much as I need Him for anything else:
“My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.” Psalm 62:7
I realize that I am trusting in Him for my salvation. I know it was His work that had punched my ticket for Heaven. However, I find myself still attempting to gather respect on my own. I’m seeking to be respected by my peers and my family through my own actions.
But, just like the only one who can save me is God, so He is also the only one that can make any honor that I bear real. It’s all a reward under false pretenses unless it is God shining through me.
I cannot gain honor truthfully without God being at the center of my life. Then it’s not me gaining it, but Him being honored in me.
My honor depends on God. And so does yours. Count it accordingly.