Daily Chizuk #1128

We say every day in Modim, נודה לך ונספר תהילתך. The Maharal explains נודה לך to mean that we thank Hashem that we are His, that He does everything for us. With those words, we are declaring that we recognize we are powerless to do anything on our own. And therefore, נספר תהילתך we constantly relate the praises of Hashem, attributing all our successes to Him. And that is our greatest praise, like the pasuk says in Yirmiya (perek 9, pasuk 22). The more a person is able to take himself out of the picture and put Hashem in the picture, the greater success he will have.
The more we recognize that Hashem controls everything and take ourselves, and people, out of the picture, the more success we’ll have.