September 22

What has frail man about which to boast? What accolades may men heap upon us that give us the right to stand tall among our fellow sojourners on this planet?
Perhaps we might become advocates of human rights and take a stand in the behalf of those who lack the freedoms we enjoy in America.

Or, we might be quite accomplished in the field of aviation and contribute to the development of the spacecraft that will one day allow mankind to establish colonies on distant planets. Perhaps our achievements will be in the field of medicine and we will discover the vaccine that will conquer the worst illness.

Maybe we are skilled wordsmiths. Perhaps we weave a magic that causes letters to come together on a page in a way that challenges or encourages our fellow man in a way that few others can. May we then boast? Perhaps, unless we consider the following: the freedom Christ gives far exceeds any we may gain for ourselves or extend to others. Our God has already flung the galaxies into their ordained sphere—nothing we might do approximates what He’s already done! If we conquer dreaded diseases in our laboratories, it is far less than Jesus has already done and empowered us to do by the mention of His name. In Isaiah 53:5 we are told that it is, “…by His stripes that we are healed.”

No brilliant novel or poetry or prose we may write begins to approach the majesty of the Bible, God’s own love letter to man, His instruction manual for living life successfully, His history of His interaction with His paramount creation. So, about which of our accomplishments may we boast? By comparison to our omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God we have little that smacks of achievement—at least in the ultimate sense of the word. But we do have one thing worthy of boasting. Psalm 34:2 says, “My life makes its boast in the Lord.” May we tell of Him to all who perish for a lack of Him. That will please Him greatly, and that is enough.