God saw me, I really didn’t need to post my day on Facebook, but I’m human and sharing (and sometimes boasting) is both self-gratifying and a form of built-in brokenness and yet also a pouring out of my JOY of my counting of blessings and wanting to bring a Facebook full of CHEERFULNESS not whining. The boast however SHOULD be NOT in me but in God, in what God allows us to do, in what God forces us to do, in what we could have not achieved without Him. A boast means God did it Himself, and He did!
My boast this day? RAKING LEAVES, eating Butternut squash pizza for only $5, having freetime on a Saturday, talking, even taking a selfie with Santa. Later I posted about making a crepe, yum…SILLY BUT SOOTHING TO SHARE. Sure, this is all my BROKENNESS, me having to share, YEAH! That’s why we see both whines and wistfulness on Facebook. Yes, we rant rave cheer and jeer…. Often speak and squeal and process good times, especially when I have no one else as “captive an audience” to squeal too except the cat who really DOESN’T care, but is a good listener anyway. Now that’s a BOAST in God’s gifts, not mine, is that He gifted us this cat to love, to entertain, cajole us and be there, even wake me up and sit next to me as I write….
These brokenness bits are not all bad, for my social nature and the good weather got me outside all week and to craft fairs and events that were designed for social people like me who like to see things and support good causes. It WAS good to be there. And I saw friends from years ago, TWICE, once at one craft show then again at the outdoor event. TWICE after 15 years not seeing them, however we do see each other on Facebook, lol.
Here I will pause for the IMPORTANT boast in the Lord (that I must take minimal credit in) – it is LIVING !!! God gives us breath one more day, no matter what troubles come our way. My old friends at the event are a great couple, sweet people, however the wife has developed dementia, early dementia in her 60s… I somehow did not know but I could see it in her, she was like taking all of the scene in, processing slower, she knows what she sees, she remembers things, but she is NOT the super talkative person she used to be to verbally share it all back to people… God bless them both. I remember her rattling on about things – now she looks beyond.
When we can live “normally” or best we can under the circumstances, we must COUNT OUR BLESSINGS. All of us must “look beyond…”
Our HOPE in our brokenness that He fills us in with better bits than we can. My goal of using my forever brokenness is of wanting to connect with people for His sake… I want it purposeful for both me and God. Because a big hole in me HE FILLS. I have a hunger for Him, I also want to help serve “a helping of Him” to others who hunger – even if just me smiling is part of His appetizer to His Supper… I know only He satisfies my soul. ONLY HE GAVE US OUR SMILES…. So my next boast in Him was/IS: He makes me write and share – like smiles on paper – like tears on paper – like my brokeness down to start repairing. Now crossing over 1600 writings, I am blessed in posting them and printing them in paper format (2 copies for my kids) which will look like an obsessive pile of curated boxes in my house. I’m not proud of anything but keeping up! These writings and postings being something I just feel I need to do.
So what about this boasting of our earthly skills and situations? It can’t last forever, NOPE. We will all pass away. So if we boast in Jesus’s Sacrafice and Save, boast in Christ alone, then someday we will be present for when even all our heavenly-awarded crowns of earthly achievements “FOR GOD” will be something we throw down AT THE FEET of Jesus.
They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” Revelation 4:10-11
God’s got dibs on the goodness in this world. Today it’s rainy and cold, but we are still here, INSIDE, LOL. (Glad I did those leaves yesterday with a repaired shoulder that worked perfectly fine 5 years later, thank You God)
Today we are still able to praise, still be the children of our God.
Our God is a Living God, our living HOPE.
Let us Boast only in Him. AND LET US SHARE THAT ON FACEBOOK….
Amen
The song that was placed in my head as I awoke today:https://youtu.be/pBfOcJGEKUU
I Will Boast
Paul Baloche
… Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom
Or let the strong man boast in his strength
Let not the rich man boast in his riches
But let the humble come and give thanks
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To the One who made us, the One who saved us
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I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy, He’s worthy
.
… Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom
Or the strong man boast in his strength
Let not the rich man boast in his riches
But let the humble come and give thanks
.
To the One who made us, the One who saved us
.
… I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
He’s worthy
.
… I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone, alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
Yeah
I will make my boast in Christ alone
Yeah
I will make my boast in Christ alone
Yeah, yeah
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… I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One Who’s worthy
He’s worthy
He’s worthy
.
… I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone, alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
I will make my boast in Christ alone
Debbie Upper 