God centered future, present, past

God has been convicting me more and more how important it is to make him the center of our lives instead of asking God to center around us. Three things He's taught me are:

1) Seek out God in advance for guidance, strength, and conviction. We will loose steam half way through if we are not convinced that this is what we are doing and we will fail to live in God's great plan for us even if we do 'succeed.'
2) Remember that it us who are God's servants and not God who is ours. Do we see ourselves as a simple instruments in the mighty hands of God? Or as someone who at the most, uses God as an instrument to get what we want?"
3) Thank God when what he had called you to do is done. It is too easy in the aftermath to forget that it was God who called us, equipped us and enabled us. Celebrate! It's too easy to look at all that is ahead and forget all that had been produced already. In silence or aloud remember that all good things come from God. Humility is not denying that you have done great things. It is admitting that you would be powerless to have done them without God. For in him we live and move and breathe.