Daniel (Greek) 1:17-21: in context

Daniel and his three companions, faithful young exiles who had refused to defile themselves, are given something by God: to these four youths God gave knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and to Daniel understanding in visions and dreams. When they are brought before Nebuchadnezzar and tested, none are found equal to them, and in every matter of wisdom the king finds them far better than all the magicians in his realm. And Daniel continues in service through the years, even to the reign of Cyrus.

The passage is careful about where the young men's excellence came from: God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. Their standout ability, which so impressed the king, was not merely the product of their own talent or effort; it was God's gift. God equipped his faithful servants with the wisdom and skill they needed to excel where he had placed them, in the court of a pagan king. Their excellence was real, and they used it well, serving faithfully; but its source was God, who gave them what they had. There is a truth here worth holding about our own abilities. Whatever knowledge, skill, or wisdom we have is finally God's gift, given to equip us for the place he has set us. Every good gift, Scripture says, is from above; the abilities by which we work and serve are not self-generated but received. This guards us from two errors. It guards us from pride, from imagining that our gifts and successes are our own achievement, for they are given, not self-made; the credit belongs to the Giver. And it guards us from despair about our adequacy, for the God who equipped Daniel to excel in a foreign court can equip us for what he calls us to; we are not left to our own resources. Daniel and his friends were faithful, refusing to compromise, and God gave them excellence, and they used it in his service and for the good of the place where they were exiled. The pattern is one to learn: to be faithful where God has placed us, to receive our abilities as his gifts rather than our own achievements, and to use them well in his service, giving the credit to the God who gave them. Our excellence, where we have any, is God's gift for God's purposes; and the faithful, like Daniel, use what God has given them to serve well where he has set them, to his glory and not their own.

Do I regard my knowledge, skill, and abilities as my own achievement, taking the credit, or can I receive them, as Daniel did, as God's gifts, given to equip me for the place he has set me, so that I neither grow proud as though they were self-made nor despair of my adequacy, but use what God has given me faithfully in his service?