Something Worth Boasting About

What are you most proud of in your life these days? Your education, a new transaction, intelligence, a new look, ministry success, athletic talent, new business, musical abilities, your children, physical stamina, expertise in your field, influence, money in the bank, beauty, success, hard work…

All good things.

But let’s also keep in mind Jeremiah 9:23-24, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,’ declares the LORD.”

When it comes to boasting we tend to get the shoe on the wrong foot. That’s partly because or mostly because the world doesn’t give the time of day to such nonsense. Have you heard of the Academy Awards recognizing an actress lately who understands and knows God? Read any Fortune 500 magazines honoring men of God? When is the last time you remembered a university president being appointed based upon his intimate knowledge of the Lord? I’m hoping that we aren’t absorbing some of those same priorities in the church body as well.

There’s really only one thing to boast about. It actually sounds a little strange to even say it. But our boast is that we know our Lord personally, intimately and practically, directly discerning, recognizing and interacting with His character. That goes against the flow of conventional worldly wisdom and is something worth boasting about.