God and Our Humility-Is There Room to Boast?

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Psalms 139:14 says, “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” We are fearfully and wonderfully made by God, for His Works that are to be performed through us. For those of us who love God, the only works we carry out are God’s Works. In a sense, in that manner, we are agents of God.

Each of us are equipped by God in accordance with the works He wants us to perform. Ephesians 2: 8-9 says “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” God does not intend that we boast of the works that we perform. It is not our doing that we have been endowed by Him for the works we perform in His Name. To be sure, any works we perform that serve to promote the existence of the human race in any manner, way, shape, and form, and are part of God’s Order of things referred to in Romans 8:28, originate with Him, not with us.

How many times have you heard people praise someone for an achievement they performed, and that person says, ‘I can’t take all the credit, I couldn’t have done it without help from so-and-so.’ Well, everything we do in God’s name we couldn’t have done it without God’s Help. To the extent that humility can be defined as deferring to someone else and not taking all the credit for what someone else has done, God expects us to be humble as to innately defer to Him.

If someone says we performed a miracle, and it truly is a miracle, we who love God would know in our hearts that the Miracle is God’s that is performed through us. If someone praises us for a fantastic job we did, we who love God know in our hearts that the job we performed is due to how God made us and how performing that work fit in His Order of things. Inasmuch as it is not a job we can boast about, the wise thing to do would be to just bow our heads and smile. In a way, that’s an act of humility before God, in whom all things work together for good.

 

[Soyeong]

1 Corinthians 1:31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

The problem is not with boasting, but with boasting in a way where we take credit instead of God. The purpose of doing good works in obedience to God's law is to testify about God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew 5:16), not about establishing our own goodness.

 

[Peacemaker1]

boasting, being encouraged to boast, when being clothed with humility means we wont be found of god naked and ashamed.




Proverbs 27.1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.



Romans 1118 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.



the kindness of our saviour is to die for us, the kindness for those in the law, such as israel revealing themselves to the world right now, is to destroy men and childrens lives, there is no law of kindness to those who deny the kindness of christ which saves us, to know and show his same faith of kindness.



Ephesians 27 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.


Titus 34 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;



James 413 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.





2 Corinthians 6:6
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;


2 Peter 1:7
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.