Let Him That Glories Glory in the Lord

What to do.
1. Glorying or boasting has four elements.
2. The only right glorying is in knowing God.
  1. This knowledge includes intellectual comprehension, but also exceeds it.
  2. The intellectual must be governed by faith, holding for truth what He reveals about Himself but not limited to our knowledge.
  3. Further, it is a knowledge of love.
This glorying is evidenced in one’s life.
1. First, it is evidenced in refusing to glory in self or anything earthly, about which man naturally boasts (antithetical).
2. It is evidenced in our treasuring the gift of a personal relationship with God Himself, so we listen to Him and talk with Him.
  1. Evidenced in our loving to speak of Him, so there is not embarrassed silence when conversation turned to the spiritual.
  2. Evidenced in seeking to know Him better and more.
3. We must be careful of the danger of boasting in our knowledge when we boast of knowing God.
To glory in knowing God is required because God commands it.
1. As the highest Good and the only Good, He is the only glorious One. Thus all other glorying is forbidden.
2. And it is required because “in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.” And we are required to delight in what God delights.
3. He that glories, let him glory in the Lord (I Cor. 1:31). Confer Ps. 34:1; Col. 3:17; I Cor. 10:31; I Peter 4:11.