- Deliver and honor
Psalm 91:15c
I will deliver him, and honor him.
If you call, then the Lord will deliver and honor. God promises many times over that He will rescue, save and deliver you when you call upon Him; He answers your prayer and comes to help in time of need. But there is more: He will also honor you. You will be respected and highly regarded in the community; He will show the world your worth and dignity; He will uphold your good reputation.
Everyone wants to be well liked, and just as importantly everyone wants to be respected and have a good reputation; what others say about us matters to most people. To have a promise from God that He will honor us is really quite something. But it is significant for us to remember that we can only humble ourselves and then He will raise us up. If we exalt ourselves He will humble us. We purposely take the lowest seat, and if God wills He will come along and say, “Friend, go up higher.”
We pray to God; then we trust him not only to answer our prayer but also to deliver us and honor us. If we seek to honor ourselves we will only find ourselves knocked down a peg. If we humble ourselves we find ourselves honored by God and well thought of by all. The Lord does so much more for us than just protecting us from danger, delivering us from trouble, providing for our needs, and answering our prayers; He also gives us honor and good standing in the community. To be well thought of and highly regarded by other fellow humans is just as much a necessity for life and wellbeing as having food, clothing and shelter