Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 959 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Blessed Assurance! – Meditation Monday


Thank you for joining us today for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 959 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 an prayer that you too will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind. 

Although we look forward to the time when Jesus Christ will return to earth to reign as our King, we have the assurance and strength every day to live according to God’s precepts.  In our Meditation Monday today I want us to reflect on:
Blessed Assurance!
Blessed Assurance is not only a loved hymn, but it is also our seal of redemption through God’s Spirit.  All creation waits on tiptoe for the day Jesus returns and brings us home to the Father. On that day, we will experience "the total redemption of our bodies that comes when our adoption as children of God is complete. However, we realize that not only is the Holy Spirit our "guarantee, a down payment of the things to come," but He is also God’s sustaining power and presence in our lives and will help us in many ways. Here are three truths we will find in the verses today:

The Spirit intercedes for you when you pray and even "steps in and articulates your.. with groaning too profound for words"when you can't find the words to pray.
The Spirit's presence is a constant reminder that, because of Christ presence at the Father's side, nothing can ever separate you from the His love.
The Spirit whose power raised Jesus from the dead is your assurance of ultimate victory just as Jesus was victorious over sin, death, and hell.

Treasure these assurances. Trust in the Spirit's presence. Glory awaits!
·       Verses to Live
There are so many good things that await us. Even though we cannot see them now, we yearn for them. That is why Jesus promised that He would not leave you alone, but that I would send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to be with you and to help you until He comes back for you (Acts 2:32-33; Titus 3:3-7; John 14:18-26). So today, the verses come from things that Paul wrote to the Romans about blessings that the Spirit brings to Christians, including you; As I read them to you, find a few especially meaningful sentences to memorize. Then when times are tough, let the Holy Spirit remind you of these truths and fill your heart with the assurance that you are the Father's child, Christ beloved co-heir of the kingdom of God, and a person in whom the Spirit of the Almighty God lives.   Absorb the truths that are in Romans 8:18-39


The Future Glory


Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.  For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.  Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,  the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.  For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory,