Erik Raymond over at the Irish Calvinist posted the following this last fall- this again is what we mean by gospel embracing- from the time we embrace Christ at conversion into eternity.

I am challenged this morning to be like the Apostle Paul who passionately resolved,

“But may it never be that I would 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).

There is no room for boasting in ourselves when we are standing in the shadow of Calvary. In Galatians Paul was running through the halls of grace shouting with gospel-centered zeal as to the beauty of this grace and the incongruity of clinging to self-merit. Simply, Paul was boasting in the cross.

I know that when I am drenched in cross-centered meditations and when Jesus is truly my delight then I am apt to boast in the cross. However, when my meditations are consumed with self and this world and my chief delight is in what is perishing then the cross is not my boast.

Let us subdue our thoughts, sanctifying all things to the glory of God; even calibrating our minds, affections and wills through the humiliation of Calvary that Christ Jesus would be famous in us and the world.

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