To Boast - 2010

To boast in anything is foolish
For nothing anyone has is earned or deserved.
To boast in anything is foolish
For what is man's wisdom compared to God's folly?
To boast in anything is repulsive
For who is better than his neighbor?
To boast in anything is repulsive
For who does not respond with equal pride?

What is this within me that doubts when it is alone
AS sound as a dead man breathes.
What is this within me that must respond
As boastful as the potent stench of a dead man?

I have been beaten into a new birth;
Like a newborn baby cannot help but cry,
My mouth opens and what lives within me comes out
Is an infanct accused of boasting?
Does an infant's cry repulse his mother's ear?

To boast, to boast
Perhaps there is one honorable cause.
To boast, to boast
In the message, nah in the main character
Perhaps is nothing to be ashamed of.
What else would I do but boast of the One
Who gave me luns to breath, a heart that beats,
a mind that thinks and a soul that lives.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ
For it is the power of God unto my salvation
And the worlds only hope.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for
salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." Romans 1:16

thoughts on "I am not ashamed of the gospel?"

[after Romans class a friend and I talked about Paul's boasting and how dare he boast.
this was my thoughts that immediately follewed. also during a time of doubting]