Honor
Rev. Joseph Holstege examines the biblical doctrine of honor, contrasting the world's insatiable lust for temporal honor with God's view of true honor as inherent in human dignity through creation. Drawing on Old Testament narratives and Psalmic wisdom, the author argues that genuine honor cannot be achieved but only recognized, and that pursuit of worldly honors actually degrades the human soul.
You cannot see honor. You cannot point to it, measure it, weigh it. It will not fill your stomach when you are hungry. It will not refresh you when you are hot. It will not warm you when you are cold. It is nothing. And yet, it is everything. There is a lust for honor that burns insatiably in the human heart. To have the royal apparel around your shoulders, to ride in the king's chariot pulled by the king's horse, to wear the crown, to be proclaimed before all as the man whom the king...
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