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Day 272 Proverbs 27:1 Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou know not what a day may bring forth. Everyone boasts about something. We boast about our children, grandchildren, our achievements. All these are good. However, people also boast about things that haven’t happened yet. In some cases, it is more than a hopeful boast, but a boast as though it has already happened. Solomon said you are not to boast about what hasn’t happened yet because you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Jesus spoke a parable about a rich man who built barns against the future. Luke 12:16 And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. The boast and sin in this parable was that the rich man thought only of himself and not anyone else. His boast was that he would have plenty for the future, a future not guaranteed to him. James also spoke about boasting about the future. James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow 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 vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes 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 knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin. As Christians, you know your life is not your own. You were bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. So, your boasting should not be in what you will do, but in Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends. Everything you do then, should be done with Christ in mind. Let your boast be in God not in yourself. Let’s pray: Father, help me not to boast in anything except what you have done for me. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen. Copyright © 8 June 2017 by Valerie Routhieaux Image courtesy of Pixabay