Boasting, Boasting, Who Deserves the Boast?

Let me ask you a question.

If you were to take stock of your life...if you were to boast about it what would that boasting sound like?

Would you brag on your wisdom?

Your strength?

Your wealth?

Jeremiah 29:4 answers the question for us:

“but let the one who boasts boast about this:

    that they have the understanding to know me,

that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,

    justice and righteousness on earth,

    for in these I delight,”

declares the Lord.”

A truly wise person will not boast in themselves.

They will boast in the knowledge of the Lord and in His goodness.

In other words:

“Let him who boasts boast in the Lord!”

We’ve all met the braggart (let’s just hope you did not meet him in the mirror).

This trophy or that award or – you name it – never goes without mention in their conversations with you.

What is your boast?

The knowledge of the Lord is worth boasting of and yet I suspect that one who is filled with the knowledge of the Lord also walks humbly before Him.

He recognizes that wisdom and knowledge come by God’s revelation to us.

How worthy He alone is!