Boasting: an act of talking with excessive pride and self satisfaction
Have you ever known anyone that is always talking about what he has or what he has done. Sometimes those kinds of people seems to be the number one love of their own life. And they aren't the kind of people that are fun to be around because of their self contentedness.
The true love-God's love tells us that boasting in ourselves is not love. Because instead of putting our affections on ourselves, we are to put them on others. We are to love and meet the needs of people, lifting them up.
The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 9:16, For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no grounds for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me, Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.
He had preached the gospel to the early church but did not receive or take pay for it. And he did not boast that he did this. He did it for the sake of the gospel, and not the sake of his own well being.
Paul also said that our salvation is given to us by grace and because of that, none of us can have the right to boast about it. Ephesians 2:9
As Christians we want to draw people to Christ and not away from him. If we are boasting on what we have, or what we do, most people are not going to want to stick around long enough to hear about God's love. They may run and not walk out of the closest door they can find.
Is there any thing in the bible that tells us it is ok to boast? Come back tomorrow for the answer to that question.
May 10, 2019 Promise: But these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that by believing you might have life through his name. John 20:31.
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