I didn't hit the "like" button because frankly, I'm not sure I can agree with this statement. I marvel at the notion that I could be proud and a Christian. Aren't these mutually exclusive concepts?
Everything about our salvation drives home that we are helpless, hopeless sinners incapable of doing the first thing to "save ourselves." Apart from the truly amazing grace of God, to the Lake of Fire I speedily go - and justly! Everything I have and am and ever will be is the gift of God. Faith and repentance in the Lord Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection are both gifts of God - not derived by works, so that no one can boast. So, then, where is boasting? It is excluded! For it was not by works of righteousness which we have done but by His mercy He saved us. To me, perhaps the only thing I will boast in is in my weakness. I boast in my helplessness and God's ability to bring life to the dead, open blind eyes, and impart eternal life to this mortal, perishable soul.
Can we be proud of Christ? Perhaps! But, mostly, I am humbled to be a Christian. That God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us arouses no thoughts of pride in this Christian. To the contrary, God's unspeakable gift of His Son to die as a propitiation for my sins makes me fall to my knees, to lay down on my face, and cry, "Hallelujah! What a Savior."
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