Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? He is a depraved sinner that deserves eternal hell and even his best works are tainted with sin…

Do you want to add anything to what I’ve said?”

And Satan replied, “Are you trying to leave me without a job?”

via Passage: Job 1 (ESV Bible Online).

While no one may boast before God, every believer ought to be thankful that he boasts in us, considers us his inheritance as if he needed us to be rich, and delights in our good deeds. As Paul says in Romans 2, our praise is supposed to be from God–which is impossible unless he praises us. Yes God is gracious to us and yes our acceptance is only on the basis of Christ as our representative and elder brother, but God truly delights in us and what we become.

I realize I usually publish these deconstructions without comment. The point is that even something that is true should not be used to evade what the Bible actually states.