Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like wind and clouds without rain, says Proverbs 25. At first, I thought. What's wrong with this? Who wants rain and flooding? Who wants rain with wind? Who wants a cloudy day with wind AND rain?
But when you think about it, you can have dry ground that really needs rain. You hope for rain. Pretty soon you get a little wind and some clouds on the horizon and you think, Great! Rain's on the way. Only to be disappointed.
When you're promised a gift and it doesn't come, it's kind of like that. Or, if the false gift is a false attribute, you hope a person who boasted of his gifts and calling will pull through for you. Any day now, he'll do wonderful things, but that day doesn't come.
And if you're that Christian? If you think you have some great gift, but you never use it, never exercise it, never really mean to do much but feel good about it? Ugh. You're just another cloud passing over, a source of disappointment.
Father, keep me from false gift boasting!
But when you think about it, you can have dry ground that really needs rain. You hope for rain. Pretty soon you get a little wind and some clouds on the horizon and you think, Great! Rain's on the way. Only to be disappointed.
When you're promised a gift and it doesn't come, it's kind of like that. Or, if the false gift is a false attribute, you hope a person who boasted of his gifts and calling will pull through for you. Any day now, he'll do wonderful things, but that day doesn't come.
And if you're that Christian? If you think you have some great gift, but you never use it, never exercise it, never really mean to do much but feel good about it? Ugh. You're just another cloud passing over, a source of disappointment.
Father, keep me from false gift boasting!
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