Every morning, at the first light of dawn, the Rooster crowed. He crowed so long and so loud that he managed to awaken all the animals in the barnyard. Finally the Cow could stand it no longer. He asked the Rooster, “Why do you have to wake everybody up, every morning at the break of day?” The Rooster was surprised that the Cow would ask such a question. “Don’t you know,” he said to the Cow? “If I don’t crow the sun will not come up. I am a very important person with a big responsibility.” “You are a silly goose” said the Cow. “The sun will come up every morning whether you crow or not. You have nothing to crow about.”
Why does the rooster crow? I’m sure the reason is simple, but I don’t know what it is. But if the rooster is crowing over false accomplishments, then a lot of people are just like him. James 4:16 tells us that when we ‘crow’ about things which we have not done, that “such boasting is evil.” Have you ever heard someone say in so many words, “God has to be pleased with me? Look at all I’ve done for Him.” This person has ‘nothing to crow about.’ All that God does for us is unmerited.
The Apostle Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:8; “For by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourself, it is the gift of God.”
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