Make honoring the Lord with your life your first priority, and trust Him to advance you in His time and in His way.  God will have His way, no matter how we strive to achieve or to be noticed and honored; and prompting ourselves will only result in His humbling us for our own sake.  As Matthew 23:12 says, "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

If you are tempted to promote yourself, remember to quickly acknowledge the Lord when anything you do is recognized or praised, knowing that all accomplishments are realized through God.  Our lives are only channels for or reflections of God's life.  Even the greatest things we build will manifest only a small facet of God's great glory.

Placing God ahead of ourselves goes against everything in our old sin nature.  In our own strength, we will always seek to promote ourselves;  but through an everincreasing love relationship with Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit with us, we can begin to cultivate an attitude that always exalts and glorifies God.  We will become willing to say "you first" to others, even though we live in a "me first" world!