Everyday Inspirations

This is what my desktop looks like. It's a collection of notes and quotes from famous individuals and people I know who inspire me. 

The notes remind me, they encourage me, they inspire me. When life gets to be crazy or my heart is found restless I'm reminded of truth from the words of other. Some follow below.


"Walking toward Him is walking away from sin. The better you know Him, the further from it you will be. But you can't walk away from sin, not in your own strength. Everything He wants to do in you will get done as you learn to live in His love. Every act of sin results from your mistrust of His love and intentions for you. We sin to fill up broken places, to try to fight for what we think is best for us, or by reacting to guilt and shame. Once you discover how much He loves you, all that changes. As you grow in trusting Him, you will find yourself increasingly free from sin. --"So you don't want to go to church anymore."


"If it wasn't chance, it was anti-chance, something like God." --Jane Goodall


"Christians know what the world does not — that the mother tending her child, the farmer planting his crops, the father protecting his family, the couple faithfully living out their marital vows, the factory worker laboring to support his family, and the preacher preparing to preach the Word of God are all doing far more important work." --Al Mohler on Steve Jobs' passing


“Here then are two instructions, ‘love your neighbor’ and ‘go and make disciples.’ What is the relation between the two? Some of us behave as if we thought them identical, so that if we have shared the gospel with somebody, we consider we have completed our responsibility to love him. But no. The Great Commission neither explains, nor exhausts, nor supersedes the Great Commandment. What it does is to add to the command of neighbor-love and neighbor-service a new and urgent Christian dimension. If we truly love our neighbor, we shall without doubt tell him the Good News of Jesus. But equally, if we truly love our neighbor, we shall not stop there” --John Stott


‎"It is appropriate to be restless (even when you have grayed some) about what God has not yet done in the future. But it is never good to be restless about what God has already given. Thank him for it, and build on it."--Doug Wilson


"The pain reminds our heart that this is not our home. What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?" --Laura Story


"The most I hope for is to chase after the the things I dreamed of when I was younger and brave. And if it's supposed to happen, it will. And if it doesn't, I'll chase hard after something else, but at some point I'll find just what God has already set before me. And knowing He knows my heart gives me great comfort that I'll find it. --Martha Lee Ann Ryles


"If I Die Young" --The Band Perry


I'm inspired by a secular activist who experiences God in the wilderness as an anti-chance. I'm amazed at how our God speaks in nature. I'm encouraged as artists sing through the pain in the trials of life. I'm motivated by commands to live out what I so easily blog about. I'm hopeful as I look to an everlasting home and burdened by a world that often doesn't see it. I'm passionate as I see how knowing my Savior fights sin and changes lives. I'm contemplative as I listen to angst filled lyrics in songs that stir my soul. I'm thankful for a restlessness that draws me forward and a rest that quiets my heart.


Some days we need everyday inspirations. We are chronically forgetful people, forgetting what God has done in our lives and forgetting the dreams to which we have been called. The Lord calls us to "Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant;I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me." Isaiah 44:21

Form everyday inspirations in your life today. Write notes to yourself, remind yourself of what inspires you and what draws you in to the presence of the Holy today. After all, freedom moves us on from a foundation of knowing who we are in light of Who He is. And find freedom in knowing that even though we forget, we are not forgotten.


Happy Tuesday blog buddies! Be inspired today!