It is your duty to God to run your life on intelligent lines. God gives us all as much intelligence as we can possibly need, but, unfortunately, in most cases we use very little of it.
Ask yourself today if you are really conducting your life intelligently. Are you eating and drinking intelligently? Do you select your reading intelligently? Do you spend your money intelligently? Do you consider intelligently the things that you hear, or do you just accept them uncritically? Do you exercise intelligence in carrying out your daily work? Do you seek to approach each new problem with intelligence instead or mere emotions?
Have you intelligent plans for the future? Do you know what you would really like to do or to be, and if not wouldn’t it be only intelligent to go to work and find out and then draw up an intelligent plan for gaining your desire?
The world needs more intelligence. There is plenty of will, but because people will not use enough intelligence, mankind everywhere is in difficulties. Your intelligence is the light of God in your soul.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5)
God gave human’s dominion over everything on the earth, ordered us to to be good stewards of the creation and gave us the intelligence to accomplish it. This intelligence is bestowed on us so that we may discern how to do God’s will in all ways. Intelligence was not given to us so we would blindly accept or reject what we are told. Whether in matters of the spirit or the physical world, we are endowed with intellect to investigate, quantify and and qualify that which we experience, or that which we are told. Whether it derives from a priest, politician or a pamphlet, God expects us to use our minds to make rational judgements about that which we experience, feel or think.
The use of intellect has its limits and still must yield to God’s truth. But that truth must be accepted fully and embraced by our intellect or it will not yield total faith. We must accept God with our heart, soul and mind if we are to fully express faith and have Christ’s mind in us. That does not mean we have to understand every mystery of the Bible or know how God accomplishes his will. It simply means we must use our intellect as well as our hearts and souls to be in full communion with God.
If it is our purpose to fulfill God’s will here below, we must employ all God’s gifts in fulfilling God’s plan for our life. Then, the creation we are to rule and protect will be a flourishing garden, because it was ordained by God and cared for using the intellect given to us by God.
Think God,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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