Close your mouth sometime! You’re so busy bragging about yourself that you don’t even see when you’re blocking your blessing. John 5:31 says, “If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.” You’re so busy raising yourself up that you don’t even allow God the opportunity and then you get mad when man knock you down so easily.
Haven’t you heard that you should let your work speak for you? You get a position on your job that gives you a little authority and you act like no one can touch you. You’re so busy looking down on others that you don’t see your own self falling. You fix a problem or issue that nobody else could and now you want everybody to know and then you wonder why no one asks for your help anymore. You got a little extra money in your pocket and when someone ask to borrow something, you tell everybody and their momma and now you wondering why your money is funny & change is strange. Child, shut up sometime!
John 5:31 says, “There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.” When you brag and boast on yourself who know this to be true, really? How do we know that you can do all you say you can do? All we know is that you like the way your voice sounds because you’re always talking. But if you let others boast of your good work, then we know that what they say is true. The bible says in James 4:16, “As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.” Child, shut up sometime!
If the work that you do is of great standing then it will speak for itself. When you are doing all that you should be doing, then it catches the eye of those that need to see it. You won’t have to say a thing when your boss comes with the promotion that you didn’t even apply for because your work has already claimed it for you. You won’t have to say a word when God starts to open up the doors for the career you always wanted because your work is speaking for you. You won’t have to say one thing when you realize that your raise was double what it should have been, but because you allowed your work to speak for you God has already worked it out.
If you learn how to shut up sometime, then you’ll give someone else the opportunity to brag on your talents and good works. If you learn how to keep your mouth sometime maybe you can keep your foot out of it when you’re bragging about yourself to the wrong person. Most times you are bragging to folk who want to see you fail, knocked down and being drug to hell and back but you’re so busy talking that you don’t even see it. Then you are surprised when your job is phased out and they are still working.
If you are as good as you think you are, someone is noticing and you don’t have to say a word. You wonder how the VP of the company knows your name out of 500+ employees when you’ve never met – Your work introduced you. You’re wondering how the HR person at another company knew about the talents that you have – you work spoke for you! You’re wondering how you got the interview when there were 3 other people who had degrees and more years of experience – your work spoke up for you!
Stop putting yourself so far up that you’re too far to reach when you need help. Stop having your nose so far in the air that you can’t even smell when stuff starts to stink around your own house. God has a way of bringing you down even if he has to lay you on your back to do it. Shut up sometime and listen!
Jeremiah 9:23-24: “Don’t let the wise brag of their wisdom.
Don’t let heroes brag of their exploits.
Don’t let the rich brag of their riches.
If you brag, brag of this and this only:
That you understand and know me.
I’m God, and I act in loyal love.
I do what’s right and set things right and fair,
and delight in those who do the same things.
These are my trademarks.”
God’s Decree.
Lakisha, the Author 
Lady I am trying to work today…. Stop making me shout.
Hey na! Let God use you!! LOL!