Lots of boasting in our world, feels like more than ever. The overwhelming flood of narcissism flows unabated—curious where it will end.

You see this behavior in the endless selfies we post, the drive to always look good on social media, and as we signal our virtues for the proper causes. Influencers go all out to increase their platform and thus their fame and wealth.

The Lord looks at it with a yawn. Generation after generation, don’t you wonder if he gets bored with our endless circling around ourselves?

In response, the Lord provides his perspective on boasting. 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, 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.

If you followed your impressions to seek the Lord and not give up, then take pride. If you gain an inkling of understanding about the nature and ways of the Lord, then sit back and enjoy.

If you stay happy practicing kindness and living a honorable life and supporting justice, then let that be enough.

You’re on the right path—and you don’t even have to tweet about it.

Jeremiah 9 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

Photo by Ben White