May 31

that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance. — Ps 106:5 BSB

The Church is Christ’s inheritance. He purchased it with His own blood. He went into captivity for it and redeemed it by pouring out His precious blood. Now this inheritance glories—“That I may glory with Your inheritance.”

And in whom does the Church glory? It glories in its covenant Head. It does not glory in itself—in its piety, righteousness, or strength. “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the mighty man in his might, nor the rich man in his riches, but let him who glories, glory in this, that he understands and knows Me.” The Church glories in Christ and Christ alone—in His strength, love, blood, grace, and righteousness—while covering itself with shame.

No one can glory in Christ until they have been stripped of their own glory. You cannot crown both yourself and the Mediator. You cannot say, “I procured this by my strength,” and crown yourself with glory. No, the one who glories in Christ must be brought low, must have their mouth in the dust, must loathe themselves in dust and ashes before God. They must know and feel themselves to be the chief of sinners and “less than the least of all saints,” to truly glory in Christ.

When we are in the dust of abasement, if we catch a glimpse of the Redeemer’s glory, it inflames our hearts, and we glory in Him alone. And all of God’s inheritance glories in Him. They glory in nothing else. Their highest attainment is to place all the glory of salvation from beginning to end on the head of Christ, to whom all glory belongs.