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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1174 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Are You a Victim Of Your Thoughts? – 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 1174 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. 

Life does not always go smoothly.  At times it seems that we are bombarded by negative influences on all sides. That is why it is so important to be continually renewing your mind.  In today’s meditation, let us consider:
Are You A Victim Of Your Thoughts?
Life has a way of unloading her rubbish on our doorstep! It is as if the garbage truck backs up to your house and empties the contents right into your clean living room.  It may be that your spouse works too much and is always tired when they are home.  It may be that your spouse gripes too much about every little issue. Maybe it’s your boss expects too much and keeps piling more onto your overly busy workload. When you are home, is it your kids who whine too much. If you are facing any of these situations, what is the result?  Your mind is filled with trash.  Loads of pessimism, guilt, anxiety—it all piles up.  Your thoughts can become polluted with all the foul trash that is accumulating…unless you continually make a habit of washing it clean through renewal.

Remember this very important concept, “Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions.”  Think about what the Jewish leader did at the time of Christ. They killed Christ in their hearts before they killed him on the cross. Could that be why Paul writes in Romans 12:2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Paul also told us in I Corinthians 13:4-5 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. We do have a choice of what we allow to remain in our minds each day. The thoughts may pop into our minds, be we do not have to allow them to take us residence there. Paul says we can get rid of them when he writes in 2 Corinthians 10:5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.  You can proclaim: Negative thoughts, be gone. Selfishness, step back!  Envy…get lost! You are not a victim of your thoughts. If today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions, then what happens when we fill our minds with thoughts of God’s love and continue daily in His Word? Will standing beneath the downpour of His grace change the way we think and feel about others? Absolutely! It is the continual renewing of your mind, each moment of each day, which will turn your thoughts to thoughts that are in line with God’s precepts.