Who gets the credit for our accomplishments?

Like most people, I have had success and I have had failure. I've dealt with some of my failures here, and I will do more of that later. I've just finished a complicated bit of programming that delivers a nice function for my application. It involves a lot of moving parts, hooks into a database I did not design, and establishes another part of a workflow that is not yet firmly defined.

This isn't the first nice bit of code I have written. I've been a computer programmer since the late 1980's, for a variety of industries, on a variety of platforms. I wrote some really nice code that handled email and SMS text messages. I've built complicated data entry and report systems. I've built pipelines between very different systems, converting data on the fly.

Who gets the credit? In some cases, I got the credit. In others, some who were better office politicians got the credit, and I ended up carrying the blame for others failures. I have also taken the credit for some things that I was only a part of, but which would have failed if I had not been a part of it.

But who should have gotten the credit?

I've paid a great deal of lip service to the idea of relying on God. I've also sincerely wanted to trust Him for my needs. But so often, when things go right, when I accomplish something, I fail to acknowledge His power and guidance. I have nothing without Him, but I act as though everything I have, my skills, possessions, relationships are mine, by right, and not gifts, things I have been granted the privilege of having and using by His grace.