Give credit where it's due!

Dear Friends-
We all know people who have achieved wonderful success and people look up to them. Whether it's a celebrity, an intellectual or a religious leader, watch them closely as they discuss their success.

Everything good comes from the Lord. We may be intelligent, and we may even work hard, but we miss the point when we acknowledge our achievements without understanding the role God plays in our success.
Use this season of Lent to examine our lives. If there are blessings we've received and we don't know why, think harder. If were in "the right place at the right time" to assist someone or receive an opportunity, rule out coincidence.

In other words, give credit where it's due. Thank God in private and acknowledge Him in public. If you don't, you're robbing Him of his glory!

Stay blessed dear friends,
K.

Acts 14
8 -10There was a man in Lystra who couldn't walk. He sat there, crippled since the day of his birth. He heard Paul talking, and Paul, looking him in the eye, saw that he was ripe for God's work, ready to believe. So he said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Up on your feet!" The man was up in a flash—jumped up and walked around as if he'd been walking all his life.
11 -13When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they went wild, calling out in their Lyconian dialect, "The gods have come down! These men are gods!" They called Barnabas "Zeus" and Paul "Hermes" (since Paul did most of the speaking). The priest of the local Zeus shrine got up a parade—bulls and banners and people lined right up to the gates, ready for the ritual of sacrifice.
14 -15When Barnabas and Paul finally realized what was going on, they stopped them. Waving their arms, they interrupted the parade, calling out, "What do you think you're doing! We're not gods! We are men just like you, and we're here to bring you the Message, to persuade you to abandon these silly god-superstitions and embrace God himself, the living God. We don't make God; he makes us, and all of this—sky, earth, sea, and everything in them.
16 -18"In the generations before us, God let all the different nations go their own way. But even then he didn't leave them without a clue, for he made a good creation, poured down rain and gave bumper crops. When your bellies were full and your hearts happy, there was evidence of good beyond your doing."