I’m back!
June 27, 2010
WOWW
dang its been a long time since i’ve posted. haha. I love being able to journal online and all, but it was weird for the last.. wow.. nearly a year, I honestly just got lost doing a lot of different things. Not all of them have been all that beneficial to me either haha.
Anyway, I’m going to once again start posting up different thoughts 
. feel free to journey with me.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of a culture of honor. If you know me, you know that I have not been very good at honoring people, encouraging them or even loving on people. Honestly, in the Asian church that I have grown up with, and am still at now, this concept of honor is lost. In its place, sarcasm and humor have been used to mask the pain and insecurities that so infect people. I have been learning a whole lot about this from my best friends and different people that the Lord has placed in my life. It is really interesting how the Lord has taken people out of my life that have not been able to be encouraging and speak life in this season. I can see how being in a culture of dishonor and of sarcasm is infectious and if you stay around it, and specifically, if you begin to believe that it is okay to speak death into people’s lives for the sake of humor and joking about it, you begin to dig a hole that is terribly hard to get out of. I am not saying that we aren’t called to change cultures and be atmosphere changers. I am saying that when you are planting something, it is important that it is in the right soil, environment, and being watered with water and not harmful chemicals– the results differ greatly.
So a principle that I am going to be applying is:
Do not define people by their actions.
Practically for me, this means that rather than saying things like, “You are gross”, I will say, “that is gross”. This is so vital in learning how to honor. We so often define people by what they do. In our words, we begin to teach people that their identity is directly correlated with their actions. I am not what I do. I am not a human doing, I am a human being. I am not defined by how good I am at something, or how I perform. I am a son– and I will steward this identity until this peace comes about me from it.
I’m going to start reading Culture of Honor by Danny Silk. woot woot!
