Boasting in Weakness (2 Cor. 10:12-11:33)

We live in a day when “falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land.” (v3) “Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.” (v6)

When humanity rejects God’s law – when people forsake the word of the LORD and refuse to listen to his voice – then we can expect trouble ahead!

So do not boast in your wisdom. Do not boast in your riches or your strength. "Let him who boasts boast in this – that he understands and knows me, declares the LORD."

Riches and strength and wisdom are typically the ways that you get ahead in life. If you are smart – if you’re rich – if you’re strong – that is how you make something of yourself!

But the problem is that all these things become idols – or are used in the service of idols.

If you focus your energy on getting ahead in life – on your own career, your own family, your own pleasure – you will find yourself drawn into the idolatries of our age.

What is the one thing that you should focus your energy on? Knowing God. "That I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."