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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1264 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Five Treasures of the Christian Life – 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 1264 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 our meditation today, let us consider:
Five Treasures of the Christian Life
The Christian life is multi-faceted. At any given moment, I find there are a number of different things going on at the same time. In the passages for today, we see five of these aspects, which all begin with the letter T.  Over 30 years ago, Paula cross-stitched  Psalm 127:1-5, and it continues to hang on our bathroom wall to this day.  I read it often.
1.   Trust
The Christian life is not meant to be one of self-dependent toil, but of dependent trust. With trust comes peace and sleep. Listen to verses 1-2

Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the Lord protects a city,
guarding it with sentries will do no good.
It is useless for you to work so hard
from early morning until late at night,
anxiously working for food to eat;
for God gives rest to his loved ones.

As Victor Hugo wrote, ‘When you have... accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace; God is awake.’


It is easy to get caught up with our own plans for our lives, families, and ministries. This psalm is a wonderful reminder that ultimately you are totally dependent on the Lord.

This is a message of great comfort, but it is also a challenge. Is God part of everything you do? Are there any areas of your life where you are going it alone, and therefore ‘anxiously working for food to eat’?

God wants to be involved in every area of your life. If you want your work to have lasting value, you need to make sure you are partnering with the Lord and not going it alone. Trust God with your children as well. Children are a blessing (verses 3–5), and you have to trust God for them and for their future.

Children are a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from him.
Children born to a young man
are like arrows in a warrior’s hands.
How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!
He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

The next treasure is:
2.   Trials
One of the things that you have in common with all Christians everywhere, is that we all face trials. The letter of James is written to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations (that is, to all Christians everywhere).  James 1:2-5

In one of the strangest verses of the New Testament is James 1:2, where James writes, Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way,