Good Morning Garden

Man controls his own life. The Bible says that God has given him “dominion over all things,” and this is true when he understands the Truth; and the Truth is that our outer conditions – your environment – are not cause; they are effect. You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You do not have faith because things are going well. They are going well because you have faith. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come because your realization of the Truth had first fallen off.

The secret of life then is to control your mental states. To accept sickness, trouble, and failure as unavoidable, and perhaps inevitable, is folly, because it is this very acceptance by you that keeps these evils in existence. Man is not limited by his environment. He creates his environment by his beliefs and feelings. To suppose otherwise is like thinking that the tail can wag the dog.

If you have been thinking that outer conditions are stronger that you are, say to yourself: “Tail wags dog” and immediately reverse the belief.

… who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (Galatians 5:7).

All we experience inwardly and outwardly is a result of our mental state. That is not to say that the death or illness of a friend is caused by our attitude. It does mean that how we react and respond to that death is purely a mental state, and that is what determines our environment. All “objective reality” is subject to our mental states, and most of it is created by some past decision, perspective or action. We are where we are, as a result of our thoughts and the words and deeds that flow from them, much more than the environment in which we operate.

Living the truth,
Z gardener