Glory Only In God.

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence. 

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 

1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Jer 9:23  Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 

Jer 9:24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. 

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God looks for His Son in us to determine if we are His. When He sees His Son in us, all He sees is us forgiven, us redeemed! Christ in us, is our hope!

Col_1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Christ in us is our HOPE of GLORY.

We glory in the LORD, never in ourselves, never in the flesh.

If we are in Christ Jesus- Christ Jesus is wisdom, is righteousness, is sanctification, is redemption. We glory in the LORD.

Christ MUST be in us!

Gal 6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 

We glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is our hope, we have hope in no other, not even ourselves. We must glory in Him alone.

If we find ourselves glorying in the things we do, in our lives, in our actions, in our thoughts, we have to stop. We need to find our GLORYING in Jesus Christ our Savior. Too often when we glory in ourselves we are setting ourselves up for a tremendous spiritual fall. We will always FAIL ourselves and therein our glorying in ourselves comes to a screeching halt. We instantly start to berate ourselves. We allow Satan to whisper in our ears telling us how awful we are, how we are bad Christians, because if we were good Christians we wouldn't be acting as we are. We focus on our badness and take our eyes off Christ, and then we hate ourselves even more for getting further away from our Savior. A vicious, evil cycle and we've promoted it ourselves by ever believing we are good in any way and our goodness is to be glorified. What would happen if we continued to believe in our awfulness, truly believe it, not get sucked into the 'I'm a good Christian' theme when we are truly doing all we can do in Christ's name. We were never told to glory in ourselves and our accomplishment.  Remember this--

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations

JOY- count it JOY when we fall into different temptations.  Why? Because of this--

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Yet, do we stop as the temptations come and count them joy? Or do we fall victim to the temptations allowing them to because conceived in us and therefore sin? Do we take the temptations and count them as sins already- dooming ourselves when we haven't quite yet given into the temptations. Do we note the temptations assaulting us and let our hearts be filled with the joy of the Savior, knowing that somehow having to face that temptation and choosing Christ over the sin, we are letting the temptations work patience in us, patience that we need to be fully read for our Savior.

We know the closer to the return of our Savior our adversary the Devil will be working unceasingly to get every single person he can. Satan would have us look upon temptations as signed, sealed and delivered sins, but they aren't! The temptations aren't sin! We flail against the temptations as soon as they start interrupting our spiritual walk - thinking they are awful, miserable beasts to be despised. How can we despise something we are to call joy? We need to comprehend that temptations to sin will NOT cease, but by the GRACE of GOD through the HOLY SPIRIT we will be able to count the temptations joy- recognizing that they are but opportunities to grow ever closer to our Savior.

And, if we do fall into sin, we must quickly repent and seek forgiveness- NOT GIVE INTO DESPAIR!  Satan would have us give in to despair so we no longer live for our Savior.

May we truly glory ONLY in our God and not at all in ourselves.  All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!