“And let us not be weary in well doing:

for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Galatians 6:9

God instructs us in Romans 13:7 to “Render therefore to all their dues…honour to whom honour” and in I Samuel 2:30 that “them that honour me I will honour”.

• A Faithful Man – read how God honoured Joseph in Psalm 105:17-22 and understand that God uses people to treat us in ways we do not deserve to prepare us for the honour we do deserve; that is coming our way.

• A Faithful Wife – “Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come” (Proverbs 31:25). She looks at the future and smiles because she knows “a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised” (vs. 30). Honour is coming to her house.

• A Faithful Child – children who obey and honour their parents have the promise from God “That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth” (Ephesians 6:1-3). Blessing and fullness of days are on their way to them.

Victor Frankel, who lived in a Nazi death camp, stated, “The prisoner who had lost faith in the future – his future – was doomed.” May God help us to “hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Revelation 3:11). Don’t lose heart and stop short. Your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Do right and the honour that is traveling your way will soon reach its destination.

–Tim Cruse