7-27-07 Galatians 6:14

Galatians 6:14 (NAS)
But may it never be that I should 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 (Philips)
Yet God forbid that I should boast about anything or anybody except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, which means that the world is a dead thing to me and I am a dead man to the world.

You have discovered the more you walk with the Lord the more you cannot trust in yourself. You know that ultimately in your own ability you have no power, even though in your natural man you may be capable, strong, and powerful. You cannot boast or take any glory from anything that you accomplish in yourself, because everything that you do will eventually turn to dust and ashes.

However, if you pray to God for His help, what you then do, you do in His strength and power. It is through the cross, the crucifixion of your Lord Jesus that anything stands, becoming fixed, firm, and established. In these things you can boast, giving glory to Jesus. It is in the cross of Christ, the Anointed of God, that the power of the flesh has been utterly destroyed. Although at times, you still feel intense pain coming from your fleshly nature, you must know that it has been crucified--a finished and completed act. The world and its pleasures no longer have a hold on you. Therefore, you do not have to succumb to the spirit of the age.

You are no longer a citizen of this world. You have been born again into the Kingdom of Heaven through the shed blood of Yeshua, the Messiah, who has saved you once and for all from your sinful, earthly nature. He is the One who will keep you intact until you see Him face to face. He delivered you and He will sustain you with His authority. In Him you are safe, sound, unharmed, ready, and prepared for whatever comes your way.

Therefore, give the Lord your God all of the glory. He has earned and deserves it.