Glimpses of Truth

Inspiration

I’m not sure how you begin your day or week, but for me I often begin by looking for, searching for, hoping for some inspiration.  I have collected over the years approximately 1,000 books.  I wish I had read them all.  Better than that, I wish I could just remember the parts which I have read.  Everybody needs bunches of books which will help educate and inspire.  Personally, if I’m not learning, I’m not inspired like I wish to be.  I have tapes, videos, and CD’s of seminars and sermons which help me stay focused.  I don’t know about you, but I need help to keep me focused.

The Lord has placed many around me to keep me focused.  You may be one of those who help me.  I thank the Lord for you.  The Lord is good.

I don’t know how many days or years are mine upon this earth, but I know that while I’m here, I have much to do.  It might not be equal to those who wrote all my books or preached those sermons, but it’s my spot on this earth that I must be concerned with.  You’ve got a spot.

One of my books, written by Vance Havner, entitled “Lord of What’s Left,” says, “What is important is not how long you have been on the road but how far you have traveled.”  Okay!  That’s inspiration for me.

I found this poem in another of my books by Charles Swindoll entitled “Getting Through the Tough Stuff.”  It’s by Robert Frost, entitled “The Road Not Taken.”

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really abut the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

I need lots of inspiration.

James Dobson’s book entitled “When God Doesn’t Make Sense” has much to say, but one simple yet inspiring thought to me was, “There is security and rest in the wisdom of the eternal Scriptures.”  Deep enough, isn’t it? 

Warren Wiersbe is one of my favorites.  I read and listen to him weekly.  J. Vernon McGee is another who gets my weekly attention.  There are many others who have played and who continually play a part of the inspiration which I need daily.

One of my books, which the author George Sweeting autographed for me, entitled “Too Soon to Quit,” is full of inspiration.  He ends the book with this thought, and I’ll close this article with this one:  “It’s an awesome thought to consider that whatever God begins, He finishes.  Life is never over till it’s over.  And because God is no quitter, it’s always . . . too soon . . . for you and me . . .  to quit.”

Keep looking for inspiration and you’ll have a chance to be “it” for someone else.