Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 210 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Living Your Life with Purpose, On Purpose #2

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 210 of our Trek. I hope that you are still able to relax and enjoy this Christmas holiday. If you have to work throughout this holiday, choose to enjoy it and spread cheer to those that you meet. Today we continue on our Trek that we started yesterday on our hike towards 2016.  I mentioned yesterday that one commitment that I am making for 2016 is to live my life with purpose, on purpose. I encourage you to join me in living a life that is both rich and satisfying, to live life to the full. As we Trek through life, living fully does not imply that we won’t have setbacks but that we will be able to navigate through them while learning the lessons that they teach us. Wisdom-Trek is one way that will help you through the difficult days of our Trek. If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. Our planning days have begun as Paula and I lay out our calendar for all of 2016. This year includes a Chamberlain Family Reunion July 4th weekend, as well as the Podcast Movement conference the week following that. We will also be making 3 or 4 trips to Arizona to work with our partners there on the construction projects. One of the big aspects of our planning for 2016 is to create and build the “Christian Podcasting Network.”  This is a new direction for us and stems from an opportunity we see from creating Wisdom-Trek and working with other podcasters who are also Christ followers. There are many other areas that will also be involved in our planning, so it should be a very intense week. If you are a person who prays, we would appreciate your prayers for wisdom and insight during this planning process and throughout 2016. As we do plan, we realize that it is God that will give us direction in all areas as we humbly follow him as was mentioned in Proverbs 16:9, "We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps."

Keeping with our theme of life being a trek with its steep mountains to climb and deep valleys to navigate, let us focus on how we can live that rich and satisfying life each day. What is required for us to live life with purpose, on purpose? We started yesterday and will continue for the next few days to set our course and learn how to accomplish this. Our Trek for the next couple of days is…

Living a Life with Purpose, On Purpose #2

Yesterday we stopped on our hike and explored the fact that everything has purpose, and most importantly you and I are God’s masterpiece and He has a plan for us as written in Ephesians 2:10, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” 

Now that we know we are God’s Masterpiece let’s explore the concept that…

2. Your purpose makes you unique.

Your purpose is different from the purpose of anybody else listening or reading this today, anybody else on the face of this globe, anybody since creation.

You are not a divine experiment. Let me tell you what I mean. God did not make you to see what He could possibly do with you when you were born. Isaiah 46:10 tells us this.

Only I can tell you the future

before it even happens.

Everything I plan will come to pass,

for I do whatever I wish.

That is saying, before you were created, God had the end in mind. God knew your purpose. God did not start with your creation. He started with your purpose, and He designed you uniquely and specifically ...