Give Yourself the Credit examines one of the most common and least examined habits in religious life — the transfer of credit for human achievement to God — and argues that this habit, however sincere, carries a specific and underacknowledged cost. When an athlete thanks God before thanking the teammates, coaches, and years of discipline that produced the victory, the people who did the actual work become invisible. When a cancer survivor credits God while the surgeon, the nurses, the researchers, and the community who sustained them through treatment go unacknowledged, the most accurate accounting of what saved the life is never made. When two teams pray to the same God for mutually exclusive outcomes, the theology of divine intervention cannot sustain the postgame testimony that follows without contradicting itself. And when a person anchors all of this in a text they refuse to examine — unwilling to ask who wrote it, when, under what political circumstances, and from what borrowed sources — the refusal is not faithfulness. It is the protection of comfort at the expense of honesty. This piece does not ask anyone to abandon their faith. It asks something harder: to give the surgeon the credit the surgeon earned, to give the team the credit the team produced, to give the people around you the full accounting of what they contributed — because a God who is real has no need of credit that belongs to the human beings he made, and the habit of giving it away does not honor him. It makes the people he made invisible.