Tag Archive | boasting

Who Is Exalted?

Aug21

Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Therefore, to one who knows the right (good) thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
James 4:15-17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.15-17.NASB1995

Boasting is a sin when speaking of oneself. It is drawing attention to oneself to be noticed, exalted.
But is it evil when we lift up another person by boasting about them? I suppose it could be if it’s done for selfish reasons. But what if it is done to encourage one’s walk with the Lord by pointing out God’s work in them. Boasting about God and His divine work in others and ourselves will encourage, teach, uplift as we learn from one another, giving all the glory to God.

Is that boasting without arrogance?

Paul said it best:
🌹Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.
Romans 15:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.15.17.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Boasting in The Lord

Jul11

Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.9.23-24.NASB1995

🙏Your lovingkindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. Psalms 36:5, 7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.36.5-7.NASB1995

. . . may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.6.14.NASB1995

Amen.

🌹But he who boasts is to boast in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 10:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.10.17.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon https://indasharonjesus.org

Boasting

Oct21

My soul will make its boast in the Lord; The humble will hear it and rejoice.
Psalms‬ 34:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.2.NASB1995

My boasting shall be that I understand and know God and that He is Lord!²

With His praise continually on my lips others will hear (the humble) and be curious, opening opportunity to share the joy of knowing, loving, and walking with God.

Do others see Jesus in you? Do others recognize there is something different about you? Do the humble hear of Jesus through you?

🌹But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.1.30-31.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
Https://indasharonjesus.org

²Jeremiah 9:24