To Handle Success Well
Generous Giver,
Help me to handle success well. Whenever you grant it, it is natural for me to want to take credit for it. When I consider what it takes to achieve any measure of success, all I tend to see is my hard work and effort leading up to it. But since all that I have is from you, including any gifts and ability to work in the first place, how foolish it is of me to claim success as my own.
Instead, let me see success as it really is: a gift from you. When you bless me with it, may it be accompanied by a grateful heart, so that I first direct my thanks and praise to you. Then, lead me to humbly acknowledge and thank others around me who surely also helped me achieve it. Protect me from my own arrogance or overconfidence by training me to appreciate every success as it truly is, an undeserved blessing from my gracious and generous God.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.