To Honor is to Give My Best
By Marilynn Chadwick
“The wife must respect her husband” (Ephesians 5:33 NLT).
Showing respect is vital to any healthy marriage. But when it comes to honoring our husbands, it helps to understand that no two marriages or men are exactly alike. Words and actions which make my husband feel honored and respected might go right over the head of your husband.
I have been inspired by what the Bible teaches us about honor. As a result, I’m trying to be more intentional about showing honor to David. However, I’ve come face to face with an important realization: Honor demands far more from me than simply submission.
Please understand. I fully appreciate submission in marriage as part of the biblical framework of love and respect. But to truly honor my husband, I have to set the bar much higher than submission.
Honor requires self-sacrifice. Humility. It challenges me to bridle not only my words but also my thoughts. It makes me bite my tongue. Honor confronts me with my sin.
Honor, even more than submission, is an imposing benchmark. It’s a sublimely powerful target. For if I take aim and hit the bull’s-eye of honor, I am probably covering all the other virtues that make for a strong marriage.
Finally, if I want to honor David, I have to become honorable myself. So in this way, honor conforms me to the image of Christ. In short, honor requires a strong walk with the Lord. I guess you could say that to truly honor my husband, I must first become strong.
Recover the lost art of honor – and improve your relationships!
Strong, healthy relationships require honor –because people must treat each other with respect in order to develop trust and love. That’s why the Bible commands us to honor our brothers and sisters in Christ.
But that’s not always easy – especially when others frustrate us.
We want to help you improve your relationships – including your marriage – with The Lost Art of Honor, a new CD series from David and Marilynn Chadwick.
This powerful, four-part series will teach you…
- What the Bible says about honoring each other
- Practical ways to show honor to those around you
- How to cultivate a culture of honor
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