Talk Tuesday-Boast In The LORD

Why do we boast when the things we look to for validation are temporal and as consistent as shifting sands? Jobs can be lost, wealth can vanish, power can diminish, relationships can be broken, health can be destroyed and things can be stolen. When we are in pain, GOD is there. When we sin, the blood of His Son JESUS CHRIST cleanses us from all unrighteousness. When we are weak, we can become strong if we trust in Him, for then His perfect strength will uphold us. When we are lost, we can be found if we seek Him. When we feel worthless, powerless, empty and useless, He can give us worth, strength, fill us and grant us important work in the Body of Christ. When we die, we can have eternal life if we accept His gift of salvation through JESUS CHRIST, our Lord.

In his letter to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul reminds us that the centre of our worship must never be ourselves- but GOD alone. He writes:

26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.27 But GOD chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; GOD chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 GOD chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in CHRIST JESUS, who has become for us wisdom from GOD—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 

He quotes from the Prophet Jeremiah, referencing verse 24:

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, 24 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. Jeremiah 9:23-24

So put your trust in Him and let your boasting be about the One who is truly able to save. Join with king David, who declared, “2 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together,” Psalm 34:2-3.