"Turn It In"

"And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." (Psalms 90:17)
Here is something to ponder, it's a little something that I would like to call 'ownership' and it requires that we accept our mistakes, failures, and all the bad stupid stuff we continually do, as our own; but we commit all the good, wonderful, beautiful, and all the things that seem to just fall into place, as God's grace and mercy, giving Him the glory for letting us just be part of His fabulous work. What do you say? How about this little quote, "It's better to give God the glory, then it is to take the blame." Does that mean that we can blame God if it doesn't work out? I think I know someone who tried to blame God, his name was Adam; I don't think that quite worked out the way that he planned. No, I don't think it quite works to say, 'If God gets the glory, then He also gets the blame,' because the Bible shows us a picture of a God who makes no mistakes, absolutely none! The mistakes are all made by someone else, and God just fixes stuff that others break, continually! We can try to blame God, but in the end, there will be no one to blame but ourselves. No, I am pretty sure that we just need to hide in His shadow, hoping that some of what He is, is what we become; and that will only happen when He is doing the work in us. This is about us saying, 'It's all about You, Lord! It's all about You.' I cannot change myself, let alone anyone else; it's all about God doing His work in us, or in anyone else that we care about. Why do we waste our breath trying to persuade someone that they need Jesus? or why do we spend endless time trying to clean up our own lives? These are spiritual issues, and they require spiritual answers! You know that very famous verse, Psalms 103:12; the one that says, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us;" well, it's pretty much all about direction, and not so much about distance...
"Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold. We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away. But the people's minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, the same veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ. Yes, even today when they read Moses' writings, their hearts are covered with that veil, and they do not understand. But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord -who is the Spirit -makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image."
(2 Corinthians 3:12-18) NLT