What do you produce? This could relate to your job and the sales figures you produce. Maybe it’s the money you make. Perhaps you have a field in the arts and what you produce is a literal product at the end of the work day, like a piece of writing or a painting or a photograph, etc. Perhaps you’re a parent and when you see this question you immediately think of your children. What do you produce?

“Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.” (Proverbs 3:9)

Some translations read “firstfruits” of all you produce, but the meaning is the same: God should get the best of what we have. Do you honor God with the best parts of you? So often we try to fit God into our lives rather than fit our lives around God. We’ll pray if we have the time, only after we’ve done the important stuff, rather than making it a priority by setting apart time. We’ll go to church but only for an hour a week—and don’t ask me to do anything when I’m there. I’ll read my Bible if I remember to. Maybe I’ll read the verse of the day if I turn the alerts on for the app. Is that the best part of you? Is that giving God the firstfruits?

I could make this a longer post, draw it out, and add more Scripture about tithing and giving God what is God’s, but really, this gets down to the doing. Does God really come first in your life? If so, prove it by the way you live. Prioritize your life around God rather than trying to make God fit in your life, which is prioritized around other things. If you do this, your perspective on everything will begin to shift and align with God’s. You’ll see everything start to fall into place if you keep God first and center in your life.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.