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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 994 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Does God Really Care? – Meditation Monday


Thank you for joining us today for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 994 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. 

Life is difficult at times, and we feel that pressure is so much that we are unable to continue.  We may question ourselves, our relationships, and even our God.  Jesus came to dwell among us.  To be one of us, His creation.  Jesus also understands us fully, especially when we are too weak to carry on under our own power.   In our Meditation Monday today I want us to reflect on:
Does God Really Care?
I bet all of us have wondered whether God really cares for us.  Does He understand what we are going through?  How could He?  That is one reason that God sent His one and only son, Jesus, to become one of us.  Hebrews 4:15 tells us: This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.  The also became one of us to bring us salvation and freedom from eternal death.

Does this promise matter? If you ever wonder if God understands you, it does. If you ever wonder if God listens, it does. If you ever wonder if the Uncreated Creator can, in a million years, comprehend the challenges you face, then ponder long and hard the promise of the incarnation.  Jesus is “able to understand our weaknesses.”  How can He?  “Because He faced all of the same trials as we do.” The One who hears your prayers understands your pain. He never shrugs or scoffs or dismisses spiritual, emotional and physical struggles. He had a human body. He had a human mind.  He was intimately spiritual.

Are you troubled in spirit? Jesus was too.  John 12:27 “Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray, ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But this is the very reason I came!

Are you so anxious you could die? Jesus was too as he shared with his closest friends in Matthew 26:38  He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”Have you ever prayed with loud cries and tears? Jesus did too. Hebrews 5:7  While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could rescue him from death. And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God.

God knows what you are going through.  God grieves with you.  When you are at the bottom, look up to Jesus, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. Call out to Him and allow the Holy Spirit to strengthen and encourage you.  God knows, understands and provides.  Trust in Him.

That is a wrap for today’s meditation, next week we will continue our trek on Meditation Monday as we take time to reflect on what is most important in creating our living legacy.  On tomorrow’s trek, we will explore another wisdom quote.  This 3-minute wisdom supplement will assist you in becoming healthy, wealthy and wise each day.  Thank you for joining me on this trek called life. Encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek,