November 9—Boasting
The word for today is boasting.
“The king of Israel answered, ‘Tell him: “One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off”’” (1 Kings 20:11).
“You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?” (2 Chron. 25:19).
“So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!” (James 3:5).
“But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil” (James 4:16).
“You boasted against me and spoke against me without restraint, and I heard it” (Ezek. 35:13).
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy” (2 Tim. 3:2).
“Do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you” (Rom. 11:18).
“Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith” (Rom. 3:27).
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9).
Prayer: Lord, Paul’s words to the Galatians fill my thoughts today: “But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
See also: 2 Cor. 7:14, 9:2, 10:8, 13, 16; Rom. 1:30, 2:17, 23
