Proverbs 27 (Jean)
Proverbs 27:2 "Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips."
2 Cor 10:12, 18 "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise... ...For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."
There is a difference between boasting about yourself and speaking the truth about yourself. We pretty much know boasting when we hear it and it gets on our nerves! The verses in 2 Corinthians say we have a tendency to see ourselves as smarter, handsomer, funnier and stronger than we really are. Not that we should berate ourselves, or exhibit a false humility, but we do have a few blindspots.
I like what Romans 12: 3 says. "For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you."
When someone else brags on us it is totally different. It's how he/she sees us. Proverbs 27:2 says LET another praise you... That's for y'all out there who don't think you have anything worth praising. You do! It's even better when the Lord boasts about us. Think of a proud daddy chatting up his son's winning homer or mom showing off photos of her daughter's graduation. He has some awesome truths he shares with us that binds us even tighter to him. The Lord commends; we are approved. We so need that.
1 John 3: 2-3 "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure."
