Jeremiah 9:23-24 says, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Let not the wise man boast about his wisdom, Let not the strong man boast about his strength, Let not the rich man boast about his riches. But let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,’ declares the LORD.”
I’ve been thinking about this verse ever since I came across it the other day. It is so confronting at times. In this fast-paced and achievement centered culture that we live in we always boast in ourselves and what we have or what we have done. We care about the things the world cares about. How smart or wise we are, how strong we are, how much money we make, how much education we complete and how many awards we can win. However, God desires us to boast about one thing. The we understand and know Him completely.
To be honest, knowing God is not easy. God is so big. There is so much of God that our amazingly constructed brains cannot even understand. To know and understand God completely would be the biggest achievement anyone in the world could ever make. Right now, I know that God loves me, and He loves you, and He is pursuing us relentlessly, just like He did the Israelites that Jeremiah delivered these words from God to. He is calling us to turn from the ways of this world and to follow Him. To know Him. To understand Him. To love Him. To boast about understanding and knowing Him. To call him LORD. To see his kindness, justice, and righteousness here on earth and to dispense it to the rest of the lost world as His ambassadors.
I could go on and on with this, but all I’m trying to say is, the biggest achievement anyone could ever make in this world is not becoming the MVP of the NBA or getting a Doctorate Degree, but it is to know and understand Him. So why are we wasting our time with all this other stuff?
P.S. I think if we all put our hearts into it, there would be a lot of people that have made the biggest achievement ever. What would the world look like then?
