This comes from my studies involving John Calvin. Among those studies are two guiding principles used by Calvin and I came across the following summation from my professor (Dr. Waldron) about the honor of Christ that particularly hit me that I will share with you here.

Maintaining the glory of the Lord involves entirely renouncing all glory of our own. This renunciation is in order to give all praise for righteousness to the Lord.

See the Institutes of the Christian Religion at 3:13:3 for the full text this is based