To Boast or Not to Boast

DEVOTION
ROMANS
TO BOAST OR NOT TO BOAST

Rom 3:27-31

27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. 28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. 29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
NIV

Ah, the question at hand, how can I ever boast of anything? Do I boast of being a “good Christian”? Do I boast about how well I keep the faith? Do I boast about how exceptional I am at doing good works, or in fact that I do good works, even if they are not exceptional? Do I boast regarding my ability, with the Lord’s help of course, of resisting temptations? Do I boast about being able to “not sin”? Heaven help me, if I think I have anything to boast about at all. All I can say is that I have decided to trust in the fact Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for me, and because of that, because of what he has done, I am declared, by God, in right standing before him. Because I have faith in Jesus Christ and faith alone, not in anything I can do, or cannot do, but solely on Jesus. And in doing this, in this act of faith, I am in fact upholding the very law, which has condemned me.
Thank you Jesus!