Our Lord is above all

 

For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.

You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea.

1 Thessalonians 2

Our Lord is above all. He is above all kings and all rulers. He is above whatever modern culture, or us, have decided to honour more than  Him.

One of the ways we show that our Lord is above all is by choosing to live in honour of Him. We honour Him by imitating in our speech, and in our conduct to other believers and the nonbelievers. Imitating our Lord not only honours Him but draws others to the hope that we believe.  Being different and Christlike may be be ridiculed but it also is a great conversation starter and as gospel-carriers gives us an opportunity to share the gospel.