You've crossed the finish line, won the race, but lost your mind. Was it worth it after all?

I was laying on a bench the other night with some friends pretty late. The weather was comforting, not too hot and not too cold. There was a nice breeze to remind you that you were actually outside. The only negative was that it was actually very cloudy. As we were laying there looking up at the stars, (which we actually do quite often) one of my friends said "It's a sad thing when the clouds cover up the stars." I didn't think much of it really, I just agreed and let it go. But then God started speaking to me, and I found it very humbling. He pointed out areas in my life where I had taken the credit for something.

-Little side note- When I think of God's glory I automatically think of the stars. It's just the first thing that pops into my head so I know that God speaks to everybody differently because we are all in fact very unique, and this was His way of personally speaking to me.-

Anyways, He began to show me that when I took the credit for something I was actually taking away God's glory from Him. I was actually being the clouds that covered up God's glorious stars.

People tend to not think that God is relevant today, & sometimes I think that non-believers don't see God in our lives because we're still taking the glory for everything that happens. If they just saw how He saved us from this happening, or He did this, or He came through in this area of our lives, maybe then they would see that He is actually present in my our lives. I need to stop taking the glory. "It's a sad thing when the clouds cover up the stars."