What do you boast in? Martyn Lloyd-Jones is one of my favorite authors and has written one of the books that has had the greatest impact on my life. I want to introduce him to you over time and hope that brief nuggets of the clarity, wisdom and insight he offers will encourage you to hunger to read more of his writings and sermons. In this quote, he is commenting on Galatians 6:14 and what it means to “boast in the cross”. We boast in so many things…even in good things. We boast in family, we boast in accomplishments, we boast in position, we boast in who we are. I would encourage you to spend some time reflecting on this quote (and more importantly, Galatians 6:14) and ask, “Do I boast in the cross?” “The Christian… is one who glories in the cross… He does not merely say that he admires it… he does not merely accept its message intellectually… he rejoices in it. The word that the apostle actually uses [in Galatians 6:14] is a very strong one. He says, ‘God forbid that I should boast, save in the cross of Christ…’ It is a matter of boasting… It means that to him there is nothing which comes anywhere near it in significance. It means that he rests everything upon this, that this means all to him, that he is what he is because of this.”
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