TODAY’S WORD FOR MONDAY JULY 20, 2015.
BOASTFUL
To speak with exaggeration and excessive pride about oneself; to brag about oneself.
In God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever. Psalm 44:8.
This is what the Lord says: Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. For those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know Me and understand that I am Lord. Jeremiah 9:23.
We all could share many experiences we have had with people who were boastful. Some are very boastful as to how good they handle their job. Some parents are boastful as to how they handle their children. Even pastors can be boastful as to their leadership and the status of the church they minister in. It is human nature to want to boast about ourselves.
Children love to brag. As parents one has the responsibility to curb that boastfulness when it begins early in a child’s life.
How many rich people have you seen that flaunt their riches, or a powerful person brag about their power and an educated person boast of their knowledge. Boasting will give a person a boost to their ego but boasting is not a positive trait. Boasting tends to drive a wedge in relationships.
The scripture tells us in Jeremiah 9:23 that we are not to boast upon ourselves and what we have done. There is only one thing anyone can have that is worth boasting about and that is that we know God and understand that He is God.
People put a lot of value in riches, power, wisdom, knowledge, social status and appearance and boast about these things often. But they are only things that can be taken away from one at any time. God does not put value on the things just mentioned but He does put great value on our relationship to Him.
Wisdom and accomplishments do not get us into God’s kingdom. Power, fame, riches, skill and intelligence are nothing to boast about in God’s sight. None of these will secure eternal life. Salvation is totally from God through the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus.
In I Corinthians 1:31 Paul repeats Jeremiahs admonition: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
The opposite of a boasting person is a humble person. Humble people do not boast about themselves. They recognize that boasting is merely self-condemnation.
In II Corinthians we are again reminded by Paul: “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. For it is not the one that commends himself who is approved but the one whom the Lord commends.”
Our memory verse for this week is found in II Timothy 1:7.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Give me a spirit of humility as I touch the lives of my family and peers today. Thank You that I can boast in the Lord because of what You have done for me when You died to give me salvation and an eternal home with You in heaven.
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