If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, seek that aspect of God which will meet your lack. If you seem to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need. Remember you can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day. You have created your limited self by thinking and you can destroy it at any moment by thinking a new pattern.
Why do we not change from day to day, and week to week, from glory to glory, until our friends can scarcely recognize us for the same man or woman? Why should we not march around the world looking like gods, and feeling it; healing instantaneously all who come to us; reforming the sinner; setting captives free?
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound (Isaiah 61:1).
The good news is that God’s help is always available to help us replace our weaknesses with strengths. However, in order to seek God’s help in attaining the qualities we need but lack, we must first be able to honestly identify those weaknesses. That is really hard. It means we can’t lie to ourselves or hide from our flaws. Tough stuff.
But it also means we can’t be overly critical of ourselves either. Self pity, self righteousness and self recrimination all prevent us from making accurate assessments of our weaknesses. Any of these attitudes will cause us to deny a weakness that exists or exaggerate their seriousness. They can and will lead us to seek the wrong relief or to deny that we need help.
When we honestly come to grips with our weaknesses, seek God’s help and follow God’s will, we will receive the relief we need from God. Then, we will be able to preach to, bind up and free those held captive by their weaknesses. Then we can heal ourselves and those we touch. Then, we can live in and nurture the gardens God gave us.
Thinking anew,
Stan
Good Morning Garden 
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