Good Morning Garden

…be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…(Romans 12:2).

This is Paul’s admonition.

Many people understand this in principle, but they fail to demonstrate because they do not carry it out logically in practice. During prayer, they carefully build up the new mental structure, but as soon as their time of prayer is over, instead of faithfully preserving that structure intact they promptly knock it down again by negative thinking. Obviously, a bricklayer could work hard in this fashion year after year without ever accomplishing anything.

If you are failing to demonstrate, it is probably due to the same cause—building followed by wrecking. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds.

When we open our eyes after prayer, do we see a new world filled with God’s promise that yields to God’s will, or do we see the same old tired world that appears immune to God’s primacy as well as our thoughts and prayers? If, when we finish our prayers, we return to the latter world view, then we are not putting our faith into practice. Prayer is the real world and God’s will is the true reality. If we accept the perceived reality thrown at us by the physical world, we will never demonstrate God’s power and the demonstration of that power through us. Each time we open our eyes from our prayers, let us view the world anew as if through the awe-filled and promise laden eyes of a child. Then we will exist in a world filled with potential, girded by faith and empowered by God’s infinite capability. Then each day will be an experience of hope, love and confidence in the future. To quote the great Sachmo song, “What a wonderful world’ it would be.

Z gardener