Resist Boasting

2 Corinthians 12:1-6    
1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities. 6 For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me.

Paul resisted boasting about what God had done in his life, as opposed to others trying to gain followers with fantastic tales (such as even occur today by those trying to bring attention to themselves).  Here he finally gives a little background on what happened to him, but refers to himself as another man to keep the readers from adulation of Paul.  He relates when God brought him before Himself in heaven to hear the unhearable, similar to John on Patmos, and could even be from the Damascus road.  We do not know when and where, but the point is to not boast in what God chooses to do in any individual, but in the truth of God and His gospel, and in our weakness and shortcomings apart from His strength.