Honor

“Jesus... endured the cross, despising the shame."29 He endured "such contradiction of sinners against Himself."30 He submitted to the most shameful form of death known to man—crucifixion. Then, in those three dark hours on the cross, He bore our sins, the ultimate dishonor to God, in His own body on the tree. "He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin."31 Only God, who laid our sins on our blessed Savior, knows the horror, the shame, the dishonor of that time of infinite suffering. "Thou hast known My reproach, and My shame, and My dishonor."32
When we realize that it was for us that He counted this shame as nothing in order that He might redeem us to be His, what is the response of our hearts? "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive... honor." This is the One whom the King delights to honor.33
“All men should honor the Son,"34 and so every knee shall bow and every tongue confess "that Jesus Christ is Lord."35 In a coming day the announcement will be, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready."36 We who form that bride have the unspeakable privilege now, even prior to that day, and in this world that heaped every shame and dishonor on this blessed One, to honor Him with the worship of our hearts and with the testimony of our lives.
Worthy, O Son of man, art Thou
Of every crown that decks Thy brow;
Worthy art Thou to be adored,
And owned as universal Lord;
O, hasten that long-promised day,
When all shall own Thy rightful sway! 37