Romans 3:27
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
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The apostle Paul is speaking in today's verse about the fact that we cannot boast about our salvation as though it was something that we had accomplished or have deserved. We are saved by grace, by our faith in the free gift of our heavenly Father and the sacrifice of His Son Jesus upon the cross. So we certainly should boast, but only in the Lord. {1Cor.1:31} Without any doubt we should be boasting in the Lord, proclaiming His excellencies, just as Peter wrote. {1Pt.2:9}

Anything that we have, whether salvation or a skill, a talent, the food that we eat, our faith and even the love we have, it came from the Lord. After all, Paul also goes on to ask what do we have that we did not receive? {1Cor.4:7} James says that every good and perfect gift comes from the Father. {Jas.1:17}

The Lord had spoken so long ago through the prophet Isaiah to say that the people He formed for Himself would declare His praise. {Is.43:21} The greatest—and by that I mean the worst—crime is to rob God of His glory by taking it to ourselves! Our God is a jealous God. {Ex.34:14} That wonderful model of prayer given to us by Jesus Himself in the Sermon on the Mount concludes with us saying reverently to the Father, 'for Thine is the glory.' {Mat.6:13}

Seize any opportunity you have today to boast, in faith and faithfully, about the God you serve and about His Son Jesus Christ who offered His life that we might have life, and have it abundantly. {Jn.10:10} It is His Holy Spirit within us who gives us the power to do so!

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

HUMBLE YOURSELF IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD