If you pray for yourself in the right way every day, you will find that the minor things of life will gradually fall correctly into place of their own accord without any trouble on your part. Contrast this with the usual method of trying to get everything right by separately organizing a thousand petty details, and you will appreciate how wonderfully the new spiritual basis sets you free. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matthew 6:22).
The eye symbolizes spiritual perception. Whatever you give your attention to, is the thing that governs your life. Attention is the key. Your free will lies in the directing of your attention. Whatever you steadfastly direct your attention to, will come into your life and dominate it. If you do not direct your attention consistently to anything in particular—and many people do not—then nothing in particular will come into your life except uncertainty and suspense.
If the Glory of God comes first with you, and to express His Will becomes the rule of your life, then your eye is single and your whole body, or embodiment, will be full of light.
How much of our time do we spend on our spiritual life? What is the primary focus our our thoughts, words and deeds. And when we are involved in spiritual “activity”, how much of that activity is truly communing with God and the Spirit that Jesus left with us to guide, counsel and advocate for us? How often do we put God and our spiritual existence at the center of our physical existence?
We might be sitting in a room with Albert Einstein, but if we are not listening to what he says and thinking about how it applies to our lives, we might as well be sitting in the room with a empty chair. It is when we put our spiritual life at the center of our material existence that we truly understand and benefit from our relationship with God. That is why one of the ten essential commandments given to God’s people was “to put no other Gods before me”. Anything else is putting the cart before the horse, the effect before the cause and the symptom before the disease.
It is when our spiritual life comes first that we unlock the gate that leads us back to our garden from the East of Eden. It is when we put God first that the physical world and mankind’s selfish human nature yields to the spiritual reality and we manifest God’s nature. It is then that we inherit the earth and exercise dominion over it. It is then that we can spend each day in our Eden.
Keeping the eye on the ball,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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