Bill McCartney was the head coach of the University of Colorado, and you avid football fans would know that the McCartney family has been through a great deal of heartache this year. They lost the father of their little grandson, the quarterback for Colorado. They watched him die slowly of cancer.

Bill wrote recently, "Jesus Christ has certainly had his hand upon the McCartneys. He has withheld no good thing from us. He has lavished so much upon our family." And then Bill quotes one of his favorite verses, (Isaiah 26:12). "Lord, you establish peace for us; and all that we have accomplished, you have done for us.

That's a good verse for us type-A drivers. Maybe we've worked twenty or thirty years. We've worked hard, and we tend to see ourselves as self-made men. (Isaiah 26:12) says all that we've accomplished God has done for us. It's been by his grace. We could be in a far different place, so we each ought to have a tender, humble heart and a spirit of gratitude.