Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1299 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomBattles and Blessings – Meditation Monday

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 1299 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday. Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy. For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word and in prayer. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body. As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.

 In one of my devotionals this year, it discussed how each of us has good times and difficult times in our lives as if it were an either-or situation. In our meditation today, let us consider:

Battles and BlessingsSome times in the Christian life, it seems like we are on a constant roller coaster of, “battle and blessing, battle and blessing, battle and blessing…”

When we are in the battle, there are many who find it hard to believe that it will ever come to an end. When we are in a period of blessing the same thought comes to many and they expect it will go on forever. But life is not like that. There are battles and blessings.

Pastor Rick Warren says that he used to think that the Christian life was a succession of battles and blessings, whereas now he thinks of life as being on two parallel tracks. At any given moment in life, there are usually blessings but also battles to face.

He gives the example of the huge blessing that came to him through the publication of The Purpose Driven Life, which became the fastest-selling Christian book of all time. It gave him enormous influence. But at the same time, he found out that his wife, Kay, had cancer. On one track of his life, there was great blessing; on the other track, there was a massive battle to face.

Proverbs 1:1-7 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+1%3A1-7&version=NLT) will help us to learn to steer through battles and blessings.

The purpose of the book of Proverbs is stated right from the start: in verses 1-3 These are the proverbs of Solomon, David’s son, king of Israel.

Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline,

to help them understand the insights of the wise.

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives,

to help them do what is right, just, and fair.

These Proverbs tell you how life usually works. They provide pragmatic and wise advice learned from a lifetime of experience. They help you attain ‘wisdom and discipline,’ two very vital aspects of life, which do not happen overnight.

Verses 4-6 continues this thought,

These proverbs will give insight to the simple,

knowledge and discernment to the young.

Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser.

Let those with understanding receive guidance

by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables,

the words of the wise and their riddles.

The purpose of the book is to enable you to gain Wisdom which is the art of steering through the battles and blessings of life and living skillfully in whatever conditions you find yourself. Wisdom is choosing to do now what you will be happy and content with...