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But he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.
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It is completely natural for people to want to be thought well of, to be appreciated for the things they have said and the things they have done—and to quote Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘aye, there’s the rub’, that’s the problem. It is completely natural for people to boast about themselves!

The Scriptures make it clear that the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. {1Cor.2:14} We, the disciples of Christ, have been born again as something far more wonderful than natural. We are now children of God predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son. {Rom.8:16,29} Jesus has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. {Rev.1:6}

Our life on this planet, until the Lord calls us to a better place, is not about us, it is all about Him. We are just here to be ambassadors for Christ. {2Cor.5:20} If I have been faithful, and I pray that I have in imitation of Jesus, everything that I have said was not what I wanted to tell people but what my God wanted to tell people. As the Lord said, “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore, the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” {Jn.12:49-50}

And what things I have done I pray that I would be able to say as Jesus did:…“Jesus therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” {Jn.5:19}

Therefore, if my life has accomplished anything worthy of praise it is only because God is at work in me, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. {Php.2:13} It is because of Christ in me, the hope of glory. {Col.1:27} So I will boast in the Lord!
“He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. And so this joy of mine has been made full. “He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:29-30)

THE LORD IN US, THE HOPE OF GLORY