Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1238 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Overcoming Being Shortsighted - Ask Gramps


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1238 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday, we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.   If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com

So the question for this week is:

“Hey Gramps,  I struggle with the daily grind and problems that I continue to face each day. It seems like I have a lot of trials. I know I should be more proactive with long term thinking and planning, but how can I deal with today’s problems, but still consider what I need to do long term?  Would you please share some wise tips that will help?
 Overcoming Being Shortsighted
One of the main reasons that most people never rise above the daily grind and problems that all of us face each day is that they do not think long term.   You must be willing to sacrifice what you desire now, for what your desire most.  Too many times, people will settle for today’s trinkets, which prevents them from obtaining tomorrow's treasures.   In order to overcome being shortsighted you must be willing to sacrifice.  The immediate shiny objects become too attractive, and before you know it, you succumb to the temptation.   While there are trials that we face which we have little or no control over, many trials that we face are self-induced.

Purchasing things that you don’t really need with money that you don’t really have can cause financial trials.  Eating the wrong foods and not being disciplined in your exercising can cause health trials.  Not working to your best ability for God rather than man can cause employment trials.  No focusing on your family and being attentive to them can cause family and marriage trials.  Not consuming God’s Word and investing time in prayer can cause spiritual trials.  If you find yourself in the midst of various types of trials, take time to pause and reflect.  Determine if the trials that you are experiencing are self-induced.  If they are in part or in whole, start making short and long term plans to correct those issues.  Even if your trials are completely out of your control, and are not caused by your actions, never give up in your quest to rise above your current situation.  Give God the glory for the lessons that you are learning, and then continue on.  The Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!We may not have to face the severe trials that Paul did (although it may seem li...