Happy New Year! Well, it’s a tad late for that, but I wanted to start off with it anyways. I hope that everyone had a blessed Christmas and a safe New Year’s Eve.
I haven’t blogged in a while, life has been crazy as always. I have been doing a lot of thinking recently about a bunch of things, and really what would be needed in this new year.
A few post ago, I highlighted the song ‘Live your life” by T.I. Every time that song comes on the radio, I can’t help but think about the main underlying theme, which is living your life in a way that impacts others. This can be summed up in one word.
Inspire
This word is defined by Merriam Webster as
to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural
Inspiration is best used in the context of dreams, imagination, and the intangible feelings that we all have.
Inspiration is everywhere. Its in art, music, poetry, building design, and even our own thoughts. Young children love to imagine things, and I think that as we grow older that we begin to think that we can’t use our imagination anymore. We lose sight of the inspiration of life. Maybe we forget what it was like to imagine things, or maybe we have been hurt by our dreams not coming true that we don’t think that dreams exist anymore. This is way off from what God has set up for us.
God has created us in His image. Most people believe that this could mean physically, but I believe that our souls are created in His image. This means that we have the ability to do amazing things, with God’s help. I also think that God is a dreamer. He wants us to dream of new things, because when we dream, we can develop ideas to help further His kingdom.
God wants us to be inspired. I think thats one of the reasons he created the sunrise and the sunset. I love just sitting there, watching the sun peak above the horizon, and in the evening drift out of sight. Its unexplainable the power of that moment. I think God likes them too (I would hope so, He created them 
).
The one thing that we lack sometimes is the ability to take our inspiration and share it with others. Songwriters are some of the most inspiring people, and they understand this. When they get an idea, they write about it, produce it, and push it out to fans, much like T.I. with Live your Life. But how do we do this when we aren’t a big recording artist like TI?
Its quite simple actually. We just live our lives with a Christ centered focus. When we face trials, we begin to lose our inspiration, and begin to believe the lies of the enemy. We must fight against this, because when we stop believing, it affects those around us.
So I challenge all of you to start off 2009 with this in mind. Lets become an inspiring group of people, that are set on Christ centered inspiration, and lets share that with the world. It could be though song, blogging, encouragement, phone calls, or anything really. I’m taking this challenge, and I hope that you all will join me. Let us become a generation that is looked on as the most inspiring in history. Let us motivate our culture to change for the better, and not a change any politician can give us, but what our Christ the King can give to us.
Lets be a generation that seeks the God of Jacob, and lets share that with the world.
God bless you all as we go into 2009. Lets go after this!
Dive Deep,
KC
