Reason to Glory in Christ - Romans 15:17

Ever had the experience that you are happy but you cannot finger the reason? you just had a good feeling about everything but you cannot explain it, humanly speaking?

The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 15:17, "Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God." What was the reason why Paul was able to glory in Christ? Whenever we read the conjunction 'therefore' we should go back to the verses before the word and see the context given. From verses 8-16, Paul wrote how Jesus was sent to the circumcision (Jews) and that the Gentiles were included because of God's mercy. He also spoke about God's commission to him to be an apostle to the Gentiles.

There are many things in life for which we received and enjoyed that were not meant to be except by the grace of God. Indeed mankind did not deserved a second chance after Adam sinned against God in the Garden of Eden but Abba Daddy is the God of Second Chance. Read the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 and one will recognize a few names in there that, humanly speaking, should not be there at all - Tamar, the mother of Perez slept with her father-in-law Judah when he did not allow any of his remaining sons to marry her after her husband died; Rahab was a prostitute; Ruth was a Moabite and not a Jewess and Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah when King David slept with her - but Abba Daddy chose them to become a part of the ancestry of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Certainly there are many things in our daily lives that had come along our paths but we just cannot fathom them; that does not preclude them to be legitimate. For some of these they may remain a mystery to us and maybe you might want to write these down as questions to ask Abba Daddy when you get to heaven; certainly I would not spend too much time arguing or reasoning within myself the reason or rationale behind many of these things. I just want to adopt the line that Paul did - I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.