Boasting (Proverbs 20:6)

Everyone wants to talk about how good he or she is. But how good are we really?

"Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness, but a faithful man who can find?" Proverbs 20:6, Amplified

In the New King James Version, loving-kindness is replaced with goodness. Every man wants to proclaim his own goodness. We boast about our goodness because we want to be valuable in the eyes of someone else. Hell's Kitchen is on right now, and it is hilarious to watch the aspiring chefs in their confessionals. They proclaim how good they are. They will mop up the competition. They are going to win Hell's Kitchen. Then you watch them as they loose challenges or have horrible dinner services. There is no action to back up the words.

The same can be done in our spiritual lives as well. We can boast about how spiritual we are, but what is actually happening in the heart? Spirituality is not just words, nor is it even action. It is a state of being, the position of the heart.

There is no need to boast of our own goodness or even loving-kindness. Our value was already established as Jesus bought us with His own life.