Good Morning Garden

Read Matthew 7:15-20.

If man really were left without a simple practical test of religious truth, he would assuredly be in a sad plight; but happily this is not the case. Jesus, the most profound, and at the same time the most simple and practical teacher the world has ever known, has provided for this need, and has given us a universally applicable test for truth. It is as simple and direct as the acid test for gold. It is the simple question—Does the truth work in our lives?

This test is so staggeringly simple that most clever people have passed it over. Truth heals the body, purifies the soul, reforms the sinner, solve difficulties, pacifies strife. There is no such thing as undemonstrated understanding. If you wish to know how you really stand spiritually, look about you at your environment, beginning with the body. There can be nothing in the soul that is not demonstrated sooner or later in the outer, and there can be nothing in the outer that does not find some correspondence in the inner. By their fruits ye shall know them (Matthew 7:20).

Many of us say we believe certain things, yet our actions do not demonstrate that belief. When we truly believe something, it will be reflected in our lives. Want to know the truth about what we really believe? Just look at our lives and our behavior, then the truth will be self evident. If we want to change our lives and our world we must first change our thoughts and beliefs. When we have done that, we can live in the Eden God created for us here, and we can live forever in heaven with God when this life ends.

Working within,
Z gardener