“Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” “It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.” Let us who know the Lord not be like Simon the sorcerer, “giving out that himself was some great one,” but rather remember the words of our Savior, that “whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Not only are we not to praise ourselves, but when we receive any praise from others we are not to “be puffed up for one against another. ... For ... what hast thou that thou didst not receive?” “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” “They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” “For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.”
By God’s grace “am what I am,”
”For … in me … is … no good thing,”
But He in wonderful mercy
All good through our Lord did bring.
Prov. 20:6; 25:27; Acts 8:9; Matt. 20:26-28; 1 Cor. 4:6-7,5; 2 Cor. 10:12,18.