Jeremiah 9:23-24

The Lord says, “Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich. If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the Lord.

The apostle Paul understood what it meant to “boast in the Lord”. He proved it once by going on a tirade to prove the point of how silly it was to boast in anything except the Lord. In Galatians 6:13-15, “Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.” (NIV) In Philippians 1:21, Paul says, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”. (NIV) For Paul, there was only Jesus – and death was simply another part of his relationship with God through Christ. Holy Spirit, lead us in knowing the Lord!