The world will take you at your own valuation. Your body will take you at your own valuation. Your business will take you at your own valuation; for the value that you really put upon yourself is the one that manifests. You may say, “ But that cannot be true, because I know several people who are always boasting and pretending and yet no one ever takes them seriously.”
Please note that I said the value you really put upon yourself. People who boast, bluff, and pretend have really a poor opinion of themselves—or why would they pretend? And it is this poor opinion or sense of inferiority that is demonstrated in the failure that such people always make of their lives.
The man who really believes that his wares are excellent does not dream of lying about them. The man who is satisfied with what he is has no incentive to pretend to be something he is not. The man who is conscious of substantial achievement has no desire to boast.
Nature always takes you at your own valuation. Believe that you are the child of God. Believe that you express Life, Truth, Love. Believe that Wisdom guides you. Believe that you are a special enterprise on the part of God—and what you really believe, that you will demonstrate.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be… (John 3:2).
What do we really believe about ourselves? Not the false fluff of self-esteem, but the true substance of self-respect. And when we get down to what we truly believe, is it true? Does it reflect reality or is it false self-righteousness, self-pity or self-recrimination?
Do we truly believe we are the children of God? Do we act as if God loves us enough to sacrifice his Son for us? Do we express life, truth and love? Does God’s wisdom guide us? If the answer to these questions is no, then we need to honestly evaluate why and what it is that we really believe.
For it is what we believe that will determine what we are and how we live. If we truly believe God’s word, then our lives will be one of truth, joy, beauty and wisdom regardless of what happens in our physical world. We will shape the reality in which we live instead of its shaping us. Then our gardens will be places of joy in which our true value is demonstrated as children of the most high God.
I believe,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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