Day 829 – Getting Past Your Worries – Meditation Monday

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 829 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Getting Past Your Worries – Meditation Monday Thank you for joining us for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 829 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. Last Meditation Monday we considered the topic of fear. Today let’s ponder what it means to worry and the sins that lie behind so many of our worries, such as greed and insufficient faith! Listen carefully as we explore three key principles in the verses of today’s meditation. Jesus gave these principles to His disciples to help them defeat the power of worry in their lives. Please know that Luke wrote about these three principles to help you defeat worry, too! In today’s meditation, let us explore… Getting Past Your Worries · Principle #1 You’d better be on your guard against any type of greed, for a person’s life is not about having a lot of possessions. Greed is insidious and destructive — in fact, it is a form of idolatry Colossians 3:5. So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. Greed means the things you have are never enough. Greed opens the door for you to trample all over people to get things. Greed...