Let's Brag!

Jeremiah 9:23-24 (MSG)
God's Message: "Don't let the wise brag of their wisdom. Don't let heroes brag of their exploits. Don't let the rich brag of their riches.  If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I'm God, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks." God's Decree.

Our natural selves love to brag don't they? I did this, I did that, our emotions are charged and we are really pleased with our exploits. We (especially us women) love to have trophies to brag on, come to think of it guys love trophies and so I suppose they are the same.

The conquest, the sale, the win all charge us with powerful emotion. In that emotional state we can so easily believe it was all our doing and we are sooo great.

At present I am watching my God go before me and create a future that I know, really know, was none of my doing. I am just not that clever but I know how to wait, do I know how to wait and then do what I am given to do.

It is as if God says to me, here take this one step and then wait for me, He is not giving too much away and so I step, wait, step, wait, step, wait. He has me so that I know it is Him and not me. He knows me well. My natural self is so arrogant, not nice. This way He keeps me humble, and nice.

All that has gone before has prepared me for what is coming to pass and it makes me know that I am loved, my God really loves me and goes before me. He is keen to use a life that appeared to be spent, a vessel that appeared to be empty, void of ability to bring to pass (that was because it was).

'And now let the weak say I am strong let the poor say I am rich because of what the Lord has done for us'. (scripture in song)

This way He gets all the glory and I get all the fun. Amen!

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