Love...does not dishonor others. 1 Corinthians 13:4
Nor is it rude.
Dishonor: to disgrace, humiliate drag down, blacken the name of
Rude: to be impolite, uncivil, disagreeable, unmannerly
Those are just a few definitions of those words. There are many more. But lets look at a couple examples of what they can mean for us today.
Some Men and women alike dishonor their spouses by cheating on them. Some children dishonor their parents by disobeying them.
Some of us remember how it was when Viet Nam Vets came home to our country and were treated as if they had something to be ashamed for when they were sent there to fight. Whether we were for or against the war or not, should have not been the question. There were many American Soldiers that gave up their lives to fight in it and it was act of those that didn't that were uncivil to them when they came home from a war that cost many others their lives and much more.
Have you ever seen a child that is very rude. I know a young lady that when she was a child had never been taught what it meant to be rude. To dishonor her parents or anyone else as well. One day when she and her mother had come over and we were talking outside, she didn't like she wasn't getting her way about something and she actually kicked her mother right in the knee. Her mother had problems with her knees and it could have been that little girl already knew that, and so that is why her foot went there. She to my knowledge was never taught any different and grew up to be very selfish.
Our society has come a long way (not a good thing) in raising our kids to be rude and dishonoring to other people. We have seen how they treat the elderly. Giggling at them and putting them down. They don't seem to think that some day, it will be their turn to be giggled at or ridiculed.
We see how rude people can be even when at times like Black Friday during Thanksgiving, when people shove each other out of the way to get the best deals of the night. We had an incident in a local Walmart store whereby a clerk was actually hurt during a scuffle between two customers fighting over the same product they wanted.
Of course, rudeness and dishonor didn't start in these ways exactly, but they don't stop there either. If you look these words up in the dictionary, there are many more definitions for them. And as this world has progressed from its beginning to what we know it as today, it has truly become more and more just like those kinds of things we see in those meanings in the dictionary.
One person cannot solve all the problems of people that are rude or that dishonor others etc..... But one (or better yet two people) person can make a difference. Extended family members can make a difference. Christians can make a difference by raising their children and/or other family members with the principals laid out in these verses in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. We can teach them how to grow up to honor, not dishonor. How to to be considerate and have manners. How to be opposite of what the world has taught so many in a realm that is ungodly. When we do that, it makes not only family life, but also the world a better place to live.
May 19, 2019 Promise: God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9
Happy Lord's Day Sunday Friends. Thanks for your visit today. May God richly bless you with all He has for you this day!
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