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“One day I was making my daily commute through thick downtown traffic when I was suddenly drawn into an open vision. To my left was an angel. 

I was falling downward, seeing dirt and stone rush past me on either side. I fell for what seemed a long time until, in the distance, I saw a tiny crystalline blue dot. 

It expanded, growing larger and larger until I realized it was opening into a vast underground cave, larger and larger than an indoor football arena. The cave was filled with crystalline blue water, a massive underground lake.

I slowed and came to rest on an outcropping rock the overlooked the lake. The Angel was already standing there. After a few moments of silence, I asked, “What is this lake?”

“It is the well of revival appointed for this region.” He spoke in a brisk, matter of fact way, but I could feel weight behind each of his words.

I looked out over the lake, watching for a moment how its glowing waters sent rippling blue reflections dancing across the ceiling of a cave.

“So how do we get to it? How do we use it?”

The angel paused for a long moment. Then it turned, looked directly into my eyes, and said, “Learn how to honor.”1.

SO WHAT IS HONOR?

My family and I love tennis. We love watching it and playing it. We love certain players like Alex de Minaur of Australia. But we don’t want everyone on the Tennis circuit to be him, even though he is amazing. 

We need the other players to make the contest interesting and exciting. We need everybody to be uniquely them, this is what makes the sport great. Its prestige is in the space given for each tennis player to be the most powerful they can be.

In a cancel culture world, uniqueness is seen as threatening to people. When we are different, we can disagree more often and do things that are unexpected. 

Learning how to honor is celebrating what a person is, not stumbling over what they are not. Honor is at the heart of God and how He works. Honor is the very essence of the Kingdom of God. 

PRACTICING HONOR

Practicing honor means learning to live with powerful people not cancel them, shun them or mock them. It is about people around me getting to be fully themselves while I am fully myself.

Learning how to honor means I have to grow up and learn how to value disagreements and differences for the sake of connection. There is something wrong if we are not ‘having’ to work at working together, to blend how you and I bring synergy. 

If that goes away, then one of us disappeared and that is not ok. Compliance is then operating not honor. We need everybody to show up because we need everybody’s strength.

We stand on the edge of wells of revival, our ability to honor will determine what we can receive or not.

Reference:

1. (Indestructible, Healy K, Blake (2020) Florida, Charisma House p.168-169)