Honor, Love, Fear.
“Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.” 1 Peter 2:17 I love that verse. It’s in the middle of a section where Peter deals a lot with submission. Submission to government, submission to masters, submission of wives to their husbands, and so on. And I love this verse because in 11 words we’re told basically what we need to know in order to live our lives in a godly way. “Honor all people.” Do we do that? No. We judge people for the simple fact that they are different than us. We condemn people because of their outward appearances. We call people -who God created- ugly; or refer to them as a “waste of air.” Really? Is that congruent with how the Bible would speak of us? Genesis 1:26-27 talks about God doing what? Making man in His own image. And in verse 31 He refers to that as “very good.” Interesting. God has declared that man being made in His...