Glorifying God

That phrase, "glorify God" gets thrown around by us Christians alot, don't you think? But what does it really mean? Is it truly our focus? Do we really desire to glorify God? Do we know why we should?
Someone just recently asked these questions to me. I have grown up hearing them. So, it has just been given for me to glorify God.
As I have been pondering my friend's questions I have come to realize that my first response to her was a very fine prepackaged Christian answer. First, I said that glorifying God means to worship Him. Second, I should glorify God because that was what I was created for. And third, Yes, I want to glorify God...I think...I have never stopped to think about it.
Giving it more thought I am realizing that glorifying God is not just a Sunday Morning worship thing we do...it's a focus in life...it's the driving purpose behind everything I do in life. It is God's driving purpose behind the creation of the world, the trials He gives me, the work on the cross, the relationship He seeks to have with mankind, and everything else.
Glorifying God is lifting Him up, pointing others to Him. Not just worshipping Him, but actually pointing others to Him. So this makes me think a little more about what I wear, where I go, what I eat and drink, what I say...do all these things I do in life point others to him or myself or to something else? Am I being a light in the dark places?
Yes, I was created to glorify God...I am His workmanship, created to do good works. God is also very much worthy of our glorifying Him. But another significant reason I am to glorify God is becaues I am not my own...I have been bought by Him to do with me what ever he chooses to do. I was bought with a very high price. How can I the purchased, turn to the purchaser and question what He wants to use me for?
Now, do I desire to glorify God? After considering this question I was posed I would have to say, "yeah". I do. Somedays I don't understand this desire in me...it is drives me to do what is right in the most difficult situations and when I don't do what is right, boy, do I know it. I can feel it within my spirit that I have not glorified God. I also think, because the Holy Spirit resides in me, I am effected by His passions and desires...perhaps actually it is His desires that I can feel deep within me to urge me to do what is right. But yes, I can honestly say, I do want to glorify God. It has given me such purpose in life. And I have peace with the Creator, knowing that I am living out the purpose I was created for--not going against His ideal for me. If I were to live in such way that doesn't glorify God, I suppose that would be rebelling against God. Hmmmm...that makes me think of Romans 1. People who rebell against God's original design--reprobate mind.
Don't want to be there.

Di