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Welcome to Day 899 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Moving Out – Meditation Monday


Thank you for joining us for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 899 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 some, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. Some may utilize structured meditation practices.

In my life meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word and praying. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and make 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. 

We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. During the summer months, many people end up moving. College graduates finally move out of their childhood homes, high school seniors move out to college or to start their own lives, many empty nesters downsize to smaller homes. In our Meditation Monday today we will learn about…
Moving Out


One of the marks of God’s people has been their acceptance of "moving out," that is, following the Father's lead and journeying to the places and people where He sends His people. Think of Abraham leaving the security of his good life to journey to a place the Father would show him. Remember the children of Israel leaving Egypt to follow Moses into the desert as they journeyed to the Promised Land. Consider David going to face Goliath in a battle he should not have been able to win. Recall Esther going before the king, without an invitation, at the risk of her own life in order to save the lives of God’s people. These are great examples of the "moving out" principle.

In the events in the verses below, you will find three kinds of circumstances that helped instigate Christ’s faithful followers in their "moving out" into a new future that blessed many.

Obstacles in their paths — the persecution that began with Stephen's martyrdom caused the believers in Jerusalem to be scattered and moved them to other places, and they shared Jesus’s message wherever they went.
Opportunities given them — Saul, who later was known as Paul, and Barnabas ministered in Antioch in response to the reports of Jesus’s "grace in action" that moved them to go there and help grow this great multi-cultural group of Christ followers who were the ones first called Christians.
Outward calls for them — Agabus' prophecy of a famine moved them to give to those in need.



I want you to look for these same three types of circumstances — obstacles, opportunities, and outward calls — in your spiritual journey. When you find yourself presented with something that seems like one or more of these, prayerfully consider if it is God’s signal for you to be "moving out" with Christ’s grace to bless others! Unfortunately, you can get so busy and distracted by the world's stuff that you miss God’s purpose for you in these sets of circumstances. Let these circumstances nudge you to bring God’s grace through Christ to the lost, to bring helpful encouragement and growth to those newly saved, and to bring tangible help to the broken and needy.

Christ left the safety and security of being with the Father and the Spirit by "moving out" and coming to earth. He chose "moving out" and living among you and sharing your mortal existence so you could be caught up in His life, eternal life.

Remember those in the early years of Christ’s church "moving out" to bring His grace to others.