Jesus never demanded honor. Likewise we should never demand honor.
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Honor is given even when respect isn’t earned.
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Honor-bound
What does it mean to be honor-bound? It is defined as someone who is bound by or placed under the obligation of honor. Someone who feels obligated to show honor, even if it is something we dont want to do. Jesus was honor-bound, and if our faith is genuine, we should also be honor-bound. We should be obligated to honor people around us. Now honor is different than what we may think of it as. We think that honor and respect are the same thing, when really they are quite opposite. Respect is something that is earned. Meaning I will respect you when you earn it. If you treat me well and I can trust you, then you will earn my respect; honor is much, much different. You see, honor is something that is given, even when respect isn’t earned. It is also something that is not just given to our leaders, and the people above us, but also to the our peer’s and the people below us. As I was teaching about honor the other week, I had a bunch of students come up with a poster that said different titles. As I pointed to them, I said it was easy to honor the people with the police officer title, the parent title, and the teacher title. I also said that it was hard for us to honor the three holding up the “third grader,” “little sister,” and “enemy.” The reason some are harder than others is because of the perspective that we view them. We obviously dont honor a third grader because they are younger than us, right? And of course not our enemy right? And we would all prefer to honor a police officer before we did out little sister, right?! Wrong. What I did next was have them all flip over their poster, and each one read “God’s child.” You see, everything is based on perspective. If we can change everyones title from different things, and make them all God’s child, than it is much easier to honor those people. And sometimes, that is exactly what we need to do.
Just like we need to show honor, God wants to honor us, but sometimes we dont allow Him. Sometimes we are so caught in beating ourselves up for every wrong act, that we dont let God show up the highest amount of honor. He is waiting for you to stop condeming yourselves, and let Him show his abundent amount of redemption. Dont ever allow yourself to stand in the way of God’s forgiveness, because you are too busy beating yourself up.
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Hello again
I havent been on here in forever. And I want to get back into blogging. Like this if you follow me, so I can get a gauge of how many of my followers are still on here. :)
Hope everyone is doing well!
I’m hardly ever on here anymore. Maybe I’ll return to this website when I have more time on my hands. But I just want to continue to encourage everyone on here! Just kind of an update at where I’m at, I’m currently overseeing jr high ministry at my church and still living strong for Jesus! Im going to a school of ministry through my church and growing in Him daily. Hope everyone is doing well, and though I may not be on here very often, Im praying for all of you and my ask box is still open for questions. :)
mrs-annie-odair-deactivated2012 asked:
Also, this country (meaning the US, which I assume is where you live) is not a theocracy, which means that the laws of this country (including the laws regarding abortion) should not be based on any one religion (or holy book) in particular. So just because your religion teaches you to think that abortion is morally wrong doesn’t mean a thing in terms of whether or not abortion should be illegal.
I’m not asking for a theocracy, rather, a government who puts morality into consideration. Why would you give someone the option to kill? It doesn’t matter what religion you are, it just shouldn’t be legal to kill anyone, ever.
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Opinion on abortion.
Of course I don’t support it, but God was really speaking to me last night about rape. What about rape? Do you get in abortion? Its been so hard for people to answer because they would not want the constant reminder and honestly, this is much easier to say being a guy and not being in the situation. But I think that no matter rape or not you should still have the child. The reason for that is because God can turn any dark and negative situation into such a beautiful positive. You think you wouldn’t want to have the baby because it would be that reminder, but I believe you would grow close to and love that baby, and it would show how beautiful God is. Even when something so terrible happens to you, God can use it and bring such happiness. I also believe that God would never give you something you cant handle, even if you don’t think you are ready to be a parent. Even though the baby wasn’t planned by the parents, doesn’t mean it wasn’t planned by God, and He could have a purpose for it.
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Birthday today.
And I have the best friends in the entire world. Huge surprise party. Gah Im so blessed.
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I’m never on here anymore.
I wish I could make things better. I wish people weren’t starting their lives without me on a bad note with me. I’m sorry if you feel like I don’t care. I promise you I do. I’m so overwhelmed and busy lately, there hasn’t even been much time for me to figure stuff out. Formation starts in three weeks and Im stupid excited. this is going to be the best year of my life, with some incredible people. I’m so excited for the people doing it with me, as well as my friends that are doing other things like Anthem, or are leaving the city and state to pursue God on a new level. It’s so awesome surrounding myself with these people! But can I say one of the hardest things for me to watch is someone fall out of the loop. Stop attending church or stopping making it a priority. Going to parties, cussing, smoking. I hate it. I wish I could just keep in contact with all of them and keep them under my wing, as I’ve done in the past for them. But there comes a time where they arent a baby christian anymore. They need to learn and walk on their own. Its cute to see a 1 year old baby fall over, and you help them up again. But when you are six years old, its not cute anymore. And the same goes with your walk with God. I’m praying for you, relentlessly. I wish God was your number one like I’ve seen so many times. But let me just say something. If you think this last tid bit was for you, if your heart started beating a little fast, just know I’m not talking about you specifically. But know that the reason you feel convicted is because you know where your heart should be at. And yes, for whoever read this, there is not an ounce of flow in anything I typed. But that’s how I like it.
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Words of wisdom from my mom: “I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.”
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