Gloriers

But “he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 10:17

I am not sure whether this term is popular around the world, but there is a term applied to athletes who always have to score the goal or be the star, or are not a team player. They are called gloriers. 

The world is full of gloriers. They are everywhere. Sadly the church is not immune to gloriers. 

And yet there is nothing for us to glory about. We are all that we are only by the grace of God. That is why He uses the weak and base and foolish things of this world to His work. Since God uses the useless things of the world and all of our best works, are, as Paul put it in the King James Version, as dung, there is nothing for us to glorify in. 

There is no room for gloriers in God's work and yet there is a lot of it going on. I find that the longer folks are saved and the closer the grow in Christ the more unfit they feel. 

Let him that glories glory in one thing and one thing alone. Let him, indeed let us, glory in the Lord. 

Jeremiah put it clearly: 

Thus says the Lord:

“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,

Let not the mighty man glory in his might,

Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

 But let him who glories glory in this,

That he understands and knows Me,

That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

God delights when we glory Him. Why do we persist in trying to glorify us?