Boasting In The Lord

[Jerry]

I have been sharing some of my poems this last year during the Sunday services. Here is one of mine that is worth thinking about. What is important to you? What do you boast about?

Boasting In The Lord

So many will boast of their status and wealth –
For too many that is all that’s worth living;
I’d rather boast in my spiritual health –
I’ll rejoice that I am saved and forgiven!

So many will boast in who and what they know –
Their connections are the things they do treasure;
I would rather boast in the Lord Jesus Christ –
His Word is my only sure guide and measure!

So many will boast in the things they have made –
As if this life was the end of the story;
But I would rather boast in the world to come –
Heaven above is in what I will glory.

So many will boast that they have now arrived –
Trusting in themselves – a sad situation!
But I’d rather boast in what Jesus has done –
Singing aloud of His wondrous salvation!

So many will boast of things under the Sun –
Things that will one day be shaken and scattered;
I will boast in my Father’s, “My child, well done” –
In eternity, that’s all that will matter!

January 9th, 2011
Jerry Bouey

Jeremiah 9:23-24 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovindkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

1 Corinthians 1:29-31 That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Colossians 3:1-2 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Hebrews 12:26-28 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

Matthew 25:21 His Lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.

What will you be boasting about this year?