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May 19: Outline for Honor 1 Chronicles 7:1–40; 1 Timothy 5:1–9 ; Psalm 78:30–52 In most Western cultures today, we’ve lost our connection with the elderly. With one grandparent living halfway across the country and the others having died before I was born, I wasn’t around older people until I met my wife and her family. Unlike me, my wife had the privilege of knowing her great-grandparents. She has a strong sense of tradition and respect for the elderly, a deep desire to help them in all aspects of life, and she has been able to teach me to do the same. Paul has a similar experience in his first letter to Timothy. Paul says to Timothy, “Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows” (1 Tim 5:1–3). By “honor,” Paul means showing a deep concern and a consistent, earnest desire to help them financially and with their daily needs. What Paul say...