How do you live an inspired life?
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“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” —Philippians 1:6
What does God’s inspiration look and feel like? How can you know God just inspired a thought or a moment? Why should living an inspired life be our high standard for each day?
Our 2026 will be dramatically different if we take God’s holy standard to heart. Our eternal lives will be dramatically different as well. Whatever God accomplishes through our obedience on earth has eternal value in heaven.
What if we choose to live the rest of our lives for the sake of our lives eternal? How would that standard change our lives today? Does that idea seem impossible? Obscure? Unrealistic? Encouraging or defeating?
God would not author a standard for our lives without making it possible. The Lord told his people multiple times, “Be holy because I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44–45). It’s easy to hear that phrase and think of God as an idealist, rather than a realist. A lot of people look at Christians today and think the same thing about our faith in God.
God called us to be holy and taught us how to make holiness possible. The Old Covenant explained God’s laws and had a sacrificial system that provided people a way to repent and return to God and his holiness. The New Covenant gave us Jesus, “the way, the truth, and the life,” so that through faith in him people could be made holy. Then God provided a way for Jesus to indwell our lives through the Holy Spirit. We are holy because we have God’s Spirit.
How can we act like the people we have been reborn to be? Answer: We choose to live an inspired life.
How do you live an inspired life?
You can use the question above as a spiritual exercise for knowing God and his voice.
First: Don’t just read the question.
Second: Take a minute, right now, to seek God’s face and ask him, “How do I live an inspired life?”
Third: When you truly want to hear his answer, read the familiar verse below as if God is answering you, only you.
Fourth: Ask your Father: “How do I live the life you have inspired?”
Now: Hear him speak his answer, in his voice – to you:
“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:28–31).
God says:
- How is it you don’t know me yet! I am the “I AM.” I am your everlasting God, the Creator of everything. “I AM” sufficient for whatever you need for every moment of your life.
- “I AM” always here for you, and I always understand your every need.
- “I AM” always able and willing to provide you with the words, the wisdom, and the strength you need to live a blessed, holy, inspired life.
- “I WILL” inspire your life if you will just wait on me and rely only on the perfect love and leadership I provide.
- “I know the plans I have for you” (Jeremiah 29:11). Do you want to know my plans?
Did God’s voice impact your heart?
It should break our hearts to hear our Father say, “Have you not known? Have you not heard?” God gave the world the Bible so everyone could know him. God gave the world Jesus so that everyone could be made holy through faith. God gave the faithful the right to become his children and provided his Holy Spirit so we could always be near him and hear him. How is it that this world, and so many of his children, still don’t rely on his inspiration?
God cannot inspire our lives until we trust his perfection and love. God’s inspiration requires the realization that our ideas are the product of imperfection unless his word inspires them through his Spirit.
He inspired Paul to tell Timothy, and all of us, that “All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). Every time we study Scripture, we are reading God’s inspiration. The words we read are his voice, breathed into our lives as our inspiration and power to live a holy life.
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Is your heart broken by his voice and his need to ask those questions of you today?
God can inspire you right now
God’s people will change the entire world if we allow the great “I AM” to inspire the moments and choices in our lives. We need God to revive our witness so others can know our Abba, the great “I AM.”
I closed my Bible study last week with this quote from Henry Blackaby, showing how God can inspire revival in his children:
“Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.”—Henry Blackaby
God will inspire revival when he is able to inspire his children. How well do you know the great “I AM”? How well do you know Scripture as his holy and perfect truth? How faithfully do you follow the personal leadership of his Holy Spirit?
God will inspire and enable us to be holy, because he is our holy Father and wants his children to be like him. Let’s “mount up with wings like eagles” and soar through the rest of our lives, inspired to live only for the standard and plan our perfect God has set before us.
