Praise and Honor

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The natural heart always seeks the praise and honor of fellow man. For example, a grade school boy told an older sister that he was very smart and that he had told his classmates at school how smart he was. She told him that this was not a good thing to do. He responded, “If I do not tell them, how will they know?” As we get older, we become more clever in how we let people “know.” Competition in sports, entertainment, business, politics and many other affairs of life is geared to being at the top (or being the most humble) and receiving the praise and honor that comes with it. Our Lord Jesus was just the opposite. He told those who played the honor game that on that very ground they would not receive Him. His statements are well worth pondering and are taken up in an article in this issue. “Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life. I receive not honor from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you, [for divine love seeks the good of others, not honor for self]. I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not: If another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?” (John 5:41-4441I receive not honor from men. 42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? (John 5:41‑44)).