To "glory" in something is to think of it night and day, to be obsessed with it, to love it with all your heart. It may be a new dress, or a new house, or a new car; it's on your mind all the time.
"Our beloved brother Paul" (cf. 2 Peter 3:15) "gloried" in the cross of Jesus. He said, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world" (Galatians 6:14).
He was obsessed with an understanding of the love that drove the Son of God to go to hell in order to save us; that heart appreciation for him surmounted every other love of his life.
He saw therein a love that is stronger than death, a love that is as wide as eternity; the Son of God became one of us, became "man," and died the second death of every human being who has ever come into the world.
Yours, included.
In Hindu terms, He paid and exhausted the karma of every human being.
He lifted from every human heart the burden of our guilt.
Let's go to our knees, and thank Him!
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