Joshua Boyd
Part 2 of our series on honor begins today with some questions: what do you value? What do you put the highest price on?
The apostle Paul’s values changed after he encountered the Lord Jesus on the road to Damascus.
Philippians 3:5-9
The Kingdom of God works by honor. We can restate it this way: the Kingdom of God works by a value system – one that is much different from the world’s value system. This might be one of the largest gaps between the two kingdoms. When you travel the world, you can see differences in culture and laws that show what is valued or prioritized between one nation versus another. Japanese culture values family heritage, elders and the culture itself. Here in the US, what would you say that we value? I know we spend way too much money on entertainment.
The world ridicules, thinks very little of the things that are the highest value in the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
That means us! We have to realize, like Paul, that our heritage, our education, our occupation mean nothing in the Kingdom of God. That doesn’t mean God won’t use our education and our occupation for His sake. It means that we can’t rely on only that to get ahead in this world and especially with God. When we value eternity more than this world, we start to see what we should honor.
