To honor is to praise, to be impressed with, to be influenced to imitate. These descriptors are always connected because we naturally will imitate that with which we are impressed. The individual impressed by the fool becomes the fool. The individual impressed by Jesus Christ becomes more like Jesus Christ. The command of Jesus, then, becomes paramount: Love the Lord with your mind. Learn to develop a mind that carefully determines what to honor through the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Developing a discerning mind is practical. It means you ask yourself hard questions and answer those hard questions honestly. What am I impressed by? Why does that impress me? How am I influenced, and where does that influence lead me? It is the refusal to ask these questions, the propensity to be too easily impressed, that results in a life of useless foolishness. This is what Paul described in Romans 1 as people honored the creation instead of the Creator. The result was that their eyes were blinded and their hearts were darkened as God gave them over to depraved thinking. As Paul continued to express, it is only through the grace of God in renewing our minds after Jesus Christ that we are restored from the depravity of honoring the wrong thing.