God's boast in us is really about Him

Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"

Job 2:3

God bragged about His servant Job.  To the devil no less!  And what was the content of His boast regarding Job?  “There is none like him on the earth.”  He is “a blameless and upright man.”  He “fears God and shuns evil."

Could God make that boast about you?  I know He can’t about me.

Actually there is only one person about whom that boast is 100% accurate.  Jesus.  As good as Job was, Jesus is the only human being ever who is sinless.

Here is the good news for all believers.  Because we are “in Christ,” God can and does make this boast of us, not because of who or what we are, but because of who we are “in Christ.”  Get this, child of God, because we are “in Christ,” our Father in Heaven sees us as He sees Jesus.  As the Father can boast in Christ, He can boast in us.

But His boast in us is not for our glory—we have none of our own, the Father’s boast in we who are in Christ is for His Glory.  It is for His glory because He has saved us.  He has not only declared us to be holy (as we are “in Christ”), He is making us holy as He sanctifies us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We have nothing in ourselves in which to boast.  But our Heavenly Father can boast in us because we are in Christ.

Let these truths both thrill us and humble us.