Good Morning Garden

It happens to some students of prayer who are especially zealous, giving much time to study and meditation, and making more than average progress, that a time comes when their ordinary daily work begins to seem dull, tiresome, and really not worthwhile. Such a person may actually have a very important and interesting position, which most people would consider ideal; but now he is no longer content or happy. He would like to throw up business life altogether and devote all his time to his spiritual development.

The healing of this problem is first to know that a great many people have to meet it. It is not at all uncommon or peculiar to one person; and those who have it always come through it and find themselves happier than ever before because this particular difficulty only happens to wholehearted and zealous people. Such people usually spend too much time in prayer and meditation, and become waterlogged.

Having come through that stage they always find themselves more interested in their business than ever before; they do much better work, and at the same time they progress much faster in their spiritual lives, and have a great deal more power in prayer than they ever had before.

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (Job 42:2).

All of us should pray to have this dilemma. What a blessing to be so consumed with our spiritual lives that we lose interest in material things. However, taken too far, even this can be a problem. All parts of our lives are important and should be kept in balance. One way to do that is to channel our spiritual fervor into our material lives so that this too may be used to accomplish God’s will in our lives. That is what is meant when the author refers to living in the Eden God gave us. Let us each use our spiritual lives to till the garden in which God placed us.

Tilling the soil,

Z gardener