Good Morning Garden

Read Psalm 91.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. This clause has been taken to indicate some kind of favoritism on the part of God, whereas, of course, such a thing is impossible. It means simply that those who pray are saved from trouble that would otherwise overtake them, and that does, in fact, overtake those who do not pray.

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. In the Bible, the word promise is the name given to a statement of some spiritual law. So, a Bible promise is a statement of the consequences that naturally follow from certain states of consciousness. If Boyle’s law were written in the Bible idiom, it would read something like this: “As I live, saith the Lord, whenever thou shalt double the pressure of a gas, thou shalt halve the volume, temperature remaining constant.” In the language of natural science, our Bible promise would run: “ By meditating regularly on the Presence of God with you, and directing your life in accordance with that fact, you become immune from any kind of danger.”

In order to reap the benefits of these promises (laws), we must dwell in, habituate, live each day in, submission to the will of God. We can not receive the promises made above if we insist on living and thinking according to our own will and ways. Just as with all laws (promises), we must know and follow the law to enjoy the rewards. We can not ignore the law of gravity and survive, nor can we ignore God’s law and prevail when those around us fall. If we do live and dwell in God’s law each day, then we can properly tend the small garden given to us here below, and thereby demonstrate our ability to tend the larger garden waiting for us above.

Dwelling in the little garden,
Z gardener