Who was it that did it for you? Amos 1-4

One of the worse things we can do in life is to steal the glory from someone else. Taking someone's idea is one thing, but taking credit for it is quite another. It is one of the worse forms of humanity when we steal the glory of another. Taking credit for an accomplishment that had little or nothing to do with you is just unjust. So, when we stop to consider that it is God who gives all things good (James 1:17), we are practice extreme evil when we claim responsibility for it. We are stealing glory from God when we do so. This what the nation of Israel did when they claimed status and superiority over other nations. As God reminds them in 2:10-13 of Amos we see that it was God who accomplish great things "for" them and "through" them - not "by" them. God is doing a great work in our lives and when we take credit we steal His glory. In 2:13 God says He is weighted down like an overloaded wagon sagging beneath its load. Let's give God the glory for any good in our lives and rejoice in His power through us not by us.