Honouring One Another

A very happy Mother’s Day. It’s good to be able to honour, recognise and support mothers on their special day.

I appreciate, too, that Mother’s Day can bring mixed emotions, and I want to acknowledge that.

Mothers face unique challenges when raising children in today’s world, often balancing work, home life and spiritual responsibilities. As The Salvation Army, it’s important for us to offer support to mums at all stages of parenting.

Celebration days like these give us opportunity not just to honour mothers but to honour one another. Honouring others motivates, inspires and energises us. Honouring one another is important; God can use it to bring about transformation on the inside. This is why God tells us to honour each other.

In Romans 12:10 it says, ‘Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honouring each other’ (NLT).

We honour one another when we value each other. We place value on a person with our words and actions. Jesus expressed honour to all, even those who were against him. We, too, should do the same as we interact with others.

When we honour each other, we practise humility; we put others above ourselves. Honouring one another means to
show respect, it means to give attention.

In 1 Peter 2:17 it simply says to respect everyone. As followers of Jesus, we believe that God created everyone with a purpose and each person is significant. Even if we disagree, respecting means we are not rude.

Honouring one another involves grace. Romans 12 reminds us to take delight in each other. Honouring one another means showing enthusiasm; an aspect of taking delight also means to be eager about this. When we are talking about honouring each other, we are talking about treating people with value—their life matters.

The power of honouring one another has the potential to change relationships, so let us take delight in it and be eager
to honour others.