NO BOASTING

By Rick Mathes

Proverbs 27:1 (NASB) ¹ Do not boast about tomorrow,

For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

While you are sleeping, Satan is doing push-ups! He never lets up on his only flaming passion and that is to steal your joy in the Lord. A favorite passage of mine is when Mary goes back to the tomb and sees that it is empty. What courage it took for her to even step on cursed ground in her effort to finish a proper burial for Christ!

It was still dark and the sun was only dimly beginning its rise in the East as she peered into the tomb: no Jesus! She was beside herself as Jesus stepped up to the tomb entrance. As she looked back into the rising dawn background, His shadow precluded her from recognizing Him. He said, “Why are you weeping?” and she responded with words that have been echoing in my mind every day, “They’ve taken my Lord away.”

They have taken my Lord away: think about that. Isn’t that exactly what Satan wants the world to do, take your Lord away?

The devil’s method of operation has never changed.

He will take you back into the past and drag your nose through every rotten thought and action you have ever had in wide-screen IMAX with surround-sound. Vivid remembrances of the horrors you once perpetrated with the blessing of Hell. Shameful and disgusting, vivid reliving of every sordid detail. That’s enough to knock the wind out of anyone’s sails and usually, if you let him, you knees will fold in the nightmares of your past. Gottcha!

The other way is, he will lift you up and push you forward into the future “what ifs”. What if this happens or what if that happens.

Anxiety is manufactured fear. Ninety percent of what you worry about will never happen and ten percent there’s nothing you can do about it! And nine of out of ten people you tell your troubles to can’t help and the other one is glad you have the problem! It is all a waste of energy.

Dr. Bob and Jesus had it right when they proposed that you only have enough grace for today.

Fear is the opposite of faith and doubt is the backside of belief. Fear and doubt are the keys  to Hell and faith and trust are the pathway to heaven. Don’t let Satan get you worried about your future. Let the Lord do that.

Keep your eyes focused on today and His love for you. What happened when Peter looked away from Christ and worried about the billowing seas, he sank? That is exactly what Satan wants to do to you.

Don’t boast about tomorrow or worry about the past rearing its ugly head, keep your eyes on the Cross today and the Son with shine in your life.