not to us, not to us...

"Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory,
    for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!"  Psalm 115:1

That is perhaps one of my most favorite verses in the entire Bible!  It's so easy to make our lives about being a certain type of person.  We long to be great and to do great things.

But there is nothing more freeing than losing my desire to be great and living to exalt the one God who actually is GREAT.  Only then, when we are nothing and Jesus is everything, will we ever be able to truly do anything "great."  And all glory will be His.