"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. (27) But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. (28) God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, (29) so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. (30) He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. (31) Therefore, as it is written, 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord'"(1 Cor. 1:26-31).
Who are you bragging in? As a sinner who has been saved by the grace of God, who do you brag in? Who do you credit for your salvation? Do you live and act as if you had anything to do with it? From these verses, it is clear that we had NOTHING to do with our salvation.
Why? Because once we had anything to do with it, then we could boast and brag in ourselves and do so in the very presence of God. Paul tells us in v. 30 that God is the source of our life in Christ. Not God and us or God and someone else or even God and something else. Paul is clear that it is God and Him ALONE!
As a result, we have no one to boast in except the Lord. No one to brag on than the Lord. No one to lift up except the Lord. No one to exalt, glorify, praise, adore and live for except the Lord. We have not been chosen because we are so great, but because God is so great!
As you reflect on this truth today, take time to boast in the Lord. Take time to praise the Lord for your wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption which is Christ! And remember: the path for God's glory is Christ crucified; the evidence of God's glory is His choice of the lowly!
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