The Boasting of Apostle Paul: Lessons for You and I

If you believe in Jesus Christ, the command from God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of boasting is unambiguous, namely, you are not to transform anything that He, God has done for or through you into a boast. Further, you are not to boast that God’s power is evident in the fact that He can defeat any other entity who is put forward as deity by any other religion or system of beliefs.

How do we know this? Well, let us consider three texts from Christian Scripture, namely Jeremiah 9:23–24; Luke 10:19–20; and 1 Corinthians 8:5–6 (words in brackets mine in spirit of an amplified reading of Christian Scriptures). Note that the closest interpretation of the word translated ‘glory’ in the rendition of Jeremiah 9:23–24 in the NKJV is ‘boast’. The translators of the NKJV felt that the word glory is more spiritual than the word boast.

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories (boasts) glory (boast) in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says the Lord.”

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy…