Honoring God With Your Fruit

Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

~ Colossians 1:10, NLT

After reading this verse, I wondered how I am HONORING God in each of my life areas?

How do I HONOR God in my:

Spirituality (bible study, fellowship, prayer life, church, small group)
Relationships (with those I love and those I don't even know)
Career
Health (how I treat my body and maintain it)
Community (volunteering in community AND CHURCH)
Finances (how I spend, save, and donate)
Self Improvement
Rest and Relaxation
Entertainment (how/where I spend time and the activities I take part in)

To Honor Him, requires that we not just spend time with Him once a week in church. It is a way of life that literally means we will live to meet not only higher standard, but as people who produce fruit in all our activities in each life area. And when we live to HONOR The Lord Our God, we will produce that fruit in every area, which leads right into getting to know Him on a deeper level.

My prayer this morning was posted on my Facebook wall:

Christine Pechstein My thoughts this morning are related to the JOY and depth of life we can experience each day when we look for how God is revealing himself to us as our Protector, Father, and Creator.........My prayer is that He open our eyes to see and know Him.

My prayer was that He open our eyes to see and know Him. And we will get to know Him through the fruit we produce by living each of our life areas because we make a decision to stand firm and make sure the way we live honors God. Then we will get to know Him deeper and better, just as the passage says.

It is not by accident that I am so passionate about teaching life balance and Christ-Centered life management. It is because I know Him deeper, I have learned what my passion and purpose is. I couldn't help but write about his and relate it to the life balancing. There is purpose to this. And that purpose and passion to bring HONOR to him by actively living it out does two things:

1. It makes me realize I still have work to do in my own life-always will
2. It makes that passion and fire in my belly to teach all of God's people burn brighter

I want each person who reads this to ask:

How can I bring HONOR to God today in the choices I make? Will I produce fruit for Him in my nine life areas today?