We boast about a lot of things.
- our football team
- how skilled we are at sudoku (okay, maybe not that one…)
- culinary skills
- our children’s abilities
- our income
- the stuff we’ve got
- what we drive
- our wardrobe
and many other things not on this list…
I read this today and it has been in my head all day.
But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ~Paul, from his letter to the Galatians, 6:14
Here’s an excerpt from a a book I’m reading on Galatians, “The New Interpreters Bible Commentary“.
It is an acute paradox to speak of boasting in the cross, for the cross is precisely the place where all human effort and pride come to an end. The cross is God’s deed, not ours. To “boast” in the cross, then, is to acknowledge that our efforts only lead to death and that our confidence can rest only in God’s grace, which rescues us…
It really isn’t about anything I’ve done. I don’t have two legs to stand on. It is only what Christ has done.
Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord ~Jeremiah 9:24
What have you been boasting in lately?
~Peter
