Seeking Honor

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Sep 21, 2026, 5:50:16 AMSep 21

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SEEKING HONOR

Pr 25:16 If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.

Pr 25:27 It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Pr 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

There are alot of applications to the idea of not eating too much honey. (Besides the obvious issue of diet) There are many things which are sweet in life. But if we experience too much of them, we appreciate them less. Thus it says that "He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet." Pr 27:7 One sweet thing is the receiving of praise. Praise should first of all come from others, and even so too much praise from others is simply flattery. But one should never have to praise oneself. For that is pride. Remember the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. "For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends." 2Cor 10:18

Therefore do not seek to be honored for it's own sake. Nor seek a celebrity status. Rather seek to be found worthy of honor by others - and by the Lord in particular.