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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1304 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomResistance is Futile – 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 1304 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:

Resistance Is FutileChange is always coming, ready, or not. We must learn to embrace it. We must learn to accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life; change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to build His kingdom and change the world, God alters our assignments. Gideon: from farmer to general; Ester: from a young lady in exile to a queen; Mary: from peasant girl to the mother of Christ; Paul: from local rabbi to world evangelist. God transitioned Joseph from a baby brother to an Egyptian prince. He changed David from a shepherd to a king. God changed Jacob from a master of deceit to the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. Peter wanted to fish the Sea of Galilee. God called him to lead the first church. Although the path to change was very difficult for each of these individuals, and it is many times with us, God makes reassignments.

But, someone might ask, what about the tragic changes God permits? Some seasons make no sense…do such moments serve a purpose?They do if we see them from an eternal perspective. What makes no sense in this life will make perfect sense in the next. I have proof: you in the womb. I know you don't remember this prenatal season, neither do I, so let me remind you what happened during it. Every gestation day equipped you for your earthly life. Your bones solidified, your eyes developed, the umbilical cord transported nutrients into your growing frame…for what reason? So you might remain enwombed? Quite the contrary. Womb time equipped you for earth time, suited you up for your postpartum existence.

Some prenatal features went unused before birth. You grew a nose but didn't breathe. Eyes developed, but could you see? Your tongue, toenails, and a crop of hair served no function in your mother's belly. But aren't you glad you have them now?Certain chapters in this life seem so unnecessary, like nostrils on the preborn. Suffering. Loneliness. Disease. Holocausts. Martyrdom. Monsoons. If we assume this world exists just for pre-grave happiness, these atrocities disqualify it from doing so. But what if this earth is the womb? Might these challenges, severe as they may be, serve to prepare us, equip us for the world to come? Let us not resist God changing us from who we are today who He desires us to be. Resistance is Futile, let God have His way in your life. As the Apostle Paul wrote, in 2 Corinthians 4:17,...