While eating breakfast this weekend I was reading the milk container and that happy little yellow circle caught my eye:
It reads: "From cows not treated with rBST**"
So I thought, "Wow! This is some really high quality milk, no rBST (whatever that is). If it's not in there, it must be because it is really bad for us. Phew. I'm drinking good milk." And then I noticed the asterisks (**) and turned the carton to see this:
"No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-treated cows and non rBST treated cows."
I laughed because of how silly it sounded. There, on the front of the carton, this milk company was boasting about the quality of it's product, and in small print they were basically saying that it didn't matter. HA! They were boasting about something that wasn't even important!
My husband cleverly said in an announcer's voice, "No significant difference has been shown between those who drive a lamborghini and those who don't." We laughed and then realized the silliness of boasting about things that don't matter. It quickly set in that this is what all boasting is, unless we boast in the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:23-34 says,
Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 says,
"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
