Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 1324 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

10 Ways LEGOs Teach Us About Life – 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 1324 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.

I recently came across a short article about those infamous little building blocks called LEGOs, and I made some adaptations for us to meditate on. So today, let us consider:

10 Ways LEGOs Teach Us About Life

Life might be less complicated for all of us if we each received our own LEGO kit at birth. Yes, I realize there is a choking hazard for children under three. But when you are old enough, you can learn a lot about life from LEGOs. I have learned that:

1. Size doesn’t matter. When stepped on in the dark, a 2X2 LEGO brick causes the same amount of pain as a 2X8 brick.
2. All LEGO persons are created equal (1.5625 inches tall). What they become is limited only by imagination.
3. There is strength in numbers. When the bricks stick together, great things can be accomplished.
4. Playtime is important. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you are building, as long as you’re having fun.
5. Disaster happens. But the pieces can be put back together again.
6. Every brick has a purpose. Some are made for a specific spot – most can adapt almost anywhere – but everyone will fit somewhere.
7. Color doesn’t matter. A blue brick will fit in the same space as a red brick.
8. No one is indispensable. If one brick is unavailable, another can take its place.
9. It doesn’t always turn out as planned. Sometimes it turns out better. If it doesn’t, you can always try again.
10. Out of a very common looking blocks, great masterpieces can be created when we stick together for a common outcome.

 

In the same manner as us with LEGOs, God is the designer of the universe, our lives can have become a masterpiece when we allow the designer to shape us. We are indeed a building shaped by God’s own hand.

Think about each of these statements as it relates to your family, your church family, or any organization with a common purpose. Some of the statements apply more than others. For example, unity is a biblical concept for Christians, in all situations. When we as Christians stick together, great things can be accomplished.

It is an important biblical truth that every Christian has a purpose, this is true for a family and the local church family. As Paul describes in detail in 1 Corinthians 12 using the analogy of a human body, some of us are eyes, some are hands; still, others are feet, but we all have a purpose and a role. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit. While it is technically true that “no one is indispensable,” the teaching of Scripture is that each one of us is needed and the body suffers greatly if we don’t do our part which can be found in 1 Corinthians 12:20-22

The greatest comparison between LEGOs and Christianity, though, is that we are indeed a building shaped by God’s own hand. Every Christian is an imager of God, and is a part of that building, as we are all building God’s Kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven. We are not a plastic building block, but a “living stone”:

1 Peter 2:4-5 You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple. He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor.

And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.

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, Creating a Legacy.’

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Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, I am your friend as I serve you through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.

As we take this Trek of life together, let us always:

1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
2. Love Unconditionally
3. Listen Intentionally
4. Learn Continuously
5. Lend to others Generously
6. Lead with Integrity
7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

I am Guthrie Chamberlain….reminding you to ’Keep Moving Forward,’ ‘Enjoy your Journey,’ and ‘Create a Great Day…Everyday’! See you tomorrow!