If I boast, let me boast in Christ (Week of 10/4/2010)

I've been finding opportunities to tell other people about the wonderful things that God does in my life more often since beginning to pray about boastfulness. The passage reads, "Love does not boast," but Paul writes in several epistles about boasting in Christ. I hope that rather than focusing on my own accomplishments, I can focus on the good things that God provides to me, and recognize his sovereignty over my life. The more I appreciate what God does for me, and the less I attempt to glorify my own meager accomplishments, the more space God has to work in my life. 

If I really want to love people, I have to make more space for them. I can't effectively do that if I'm always blabbing about what I'm doing for myself. 

I think what really struck me was how to boast in Christ with people who may not know or understand this relationship with God. It's freeing and encouraging to other Christians, I believe, to share what God is doing for/through me, but I fear it sounds self righteous and even ridiculous to who don't have a similar relationship. So is it appropriate to use language that may be more generally understood, or is that hiding behind secular jargon for spiritual realities? 

What I pray for this week, is that I pronounce God clearly and freely to people with whom I interact. I pray that it I am able to love people by making more space for God in my language.