“Image Consultants”
It has been said, “The empty vessel makes the loudest noise.” There are people who are quite the self-promoters. They go about proclaiming the wonderful world of “them” or others closely associated with them. Now it’s one thing to brag about a particular family member when he or she has accomplished something truly noteworthy. It’s even palatable for people to relay the news when something outstanding has happened to them or when they have accomplished something worthy of recognition. But some people have to—it would seem—sell themselves or someone close to them in order to make sure they receive the recognition they so desperately crave. When people have to constantly bring up every single commendable (or even average) thing that has happened to them in order to get your “oohs” and “ahhs,” I wonder if they would be better off heeding the scriptural admonition found in Proverbs 27:22 which lovingly tells us, “Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth…”
Listen, if you have to work that hard to sell yourself, or work that hard trying to prove someone else’s worth, let me give you a little advice though, admittedly, it is unsolicited: and I quote, “We are approved by God, we don’t have to win the approval of anyone else in order to look good in their eyes—we must accept the fact that we are not perfect people. Too many of us take ourselves too seriously and our great God not seriously enough.”
Spare us from the braggadocios bore and make us all more like the Master.
