A New Altar

How do you decide what has significance and what doesn't?  How do you decide when happenings are something to pay attention to or to ignore? Basically, when do you see God at work? I find myself taking credit for things or attributing happenings to myself, whether good or bad. They seem to be a direct result of something I did or said...or so I think. How egotistical, whether the outcome is something is something I was or wasn't hoping for. I've found that my life is generally not about me. There is a much larger Kingdom I serve than my own and that Kingdom has a much bigger purpose than just me in my little kingdom.  I try to stay on my "throne" and keep everything going the way I want it to go and when that doesn't happen, I take the blame.  When things go my way, I take the credit too.  I'm trying to dethrone myself.  I'm trying to break down the altar I have built to myself and build an altar in my heart to God. I wish it weren't so easy to get caught up in my own little kingdom.  I wish I wasn't so, "Yes, I can!" all of the time.  I need the Spirit to transform my heart and to build a new altar, one that puts Jesus on the throne.