Boasting in Grace?

 Deuteronomy 28-29; Galatians 6 

“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

Galatians 6:14

We can take pride in our heritage, families, homes, careers, ministries, or even our spiritual fruit; however, Paul reminds us that the only thing worth boasting about is the grace of God expressed in Christ’s death on the cross for us. That death not only won our salvation, but also our freedom from the ‘works righteousness’ of religion. We have been set free from an identity based on performance and we now find ourselves recipients of grace. To boast in grace is an oxymoron that Paul used to expose the incongruity of both trusting in the work of Christ on the cross, and in outward signs of covenant, like circumcision.

What are we tempted to boast about amid all that Christ has done for us?

Are we dead to the world, or very much still influenced by it?

“Lord Jesus, you have set me free to know and follow you. Thank you for your grace to me, for your glory.”