Boast only in the Cross of Christ

I thank God for the numerous blessings which He has poured upon me. Even at my saddest moments of my life, I will want to fall back on His Word which offers a hope for me. I was mediating upon Psalm 84 and the last two verses are His assuring words to me.

Let’s do a review on Psalm 84.

Psalm 84
For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD Almighty!

2 My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.

3 Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young —

a place near your altar,

O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Selah

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a place of springs;

the autumn rains also cover it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength,

till each appears before God in Zion.

8 Hear my prayer,

O LORD God Almighty; listen to me,

O God of Jacob. Selah

9 Look upon our shield,

O God; look with favor on your anointed one.

10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

the LORD bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

12 O LORD Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you.

“May I never boast except in the Cross of our LORD Jesus Christ through which the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.” ~ Galatians 6:14