MISPLACED GLORY

One is not 'Christian' because he is a good person or a faithful church member. According to Scripture, God is the only reason you can be counted among the saved ... 

But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

Pride makes a man think that he plays a part in his own salvation. That presumption is at the core of every false 'religion'. When a person puts faith in his skills as a negotiator and his ability to convince God of his worthiness; the redemption found in Christ alone, goes unclaimed. How can he truly 'glory in the Lord'? ... he cannot. 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

Jesus is the Beginning and the End, for believers. His 'sufficiency' is the essence of genuine Christianity. As listed above, God has made Him our ...

Wisdom - 
It was God's pleasure to grant us knowledge of the hope found in Jesus Christ ... the 'wisdom' that brings to our understanding His plan of salvation. 

Righteousness -
When you believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, you are immediately justified before the Father, forever clothed in the righteousness of His Son. 

Sanctification -
Those who are in Christ Jesus are 'set apart' from this lost and dying world in order to serve the living God. 

Redemption - 
We have been purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and freed from slavery to sin and Satan. Believers are the prized possession of a new Master, full of love and grace.

Spurgeon - In fact, we have everything in Christ; we have in his prophetic office wisdom, in his priestly office righteousness and sanctification, and in his royal office, in which he paid the price of our salvation, we have redemption. Here is room for glorifying, and it is our duty to glory in God. 

The 'default' tendency of our fallen nature is to glory in ourselves. There is not a more dangerous precipice on which to stand than that of 'self-righteousness'. 

Abandon yourself to the fullness of Christ and 'glory' in Him alone.