"A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?" (Malachi 1: 6)
The honor that God the Father was looking for, He could not find from His people Israel.
In fact, none of us can give God anything, since Adam's sin has imputed to us the same sin and death (Genesis 3: 1-8; Ephesians 2: 1)
The honor that God could not find from us, He found in His Son.
First, though, God is Love, and this Love is manifested fully in His Son:
"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." (John 3: 35)
and also
"For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel." (John 5: 20)
Jesus honored His Father by obeying Him in all things, most of all by going to the Cross for all of us:
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (Philippians 2: 5-8)
And also
"8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 10Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 5: 8-9)
For this reason, Jesus could say, and we can receive:
"Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me." (John 8: 49)
Let Jesus your High Priest minister the honor to the Father that we could not manifest on our own, and know that His righteousness accounts all good things to you through Christ.
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