Good Morning Garden

Note that this clause that fixes the nature of God, at the same time fixes the nature of man. It is a cosmic law that like begets like. It is not possible that a rosebush should produce lilies, or that a cow should give birth to a colt. The offspring must be of the same nature as the parent; and so, since God is divine Spirit, man must essentially be divine Spirit too, whatever appearance may say to the contrary.

At a single blow this teaching of Jesus swept away 99 percent of all the old theology, with its avenging God, its chosen and favored individuals, its eternal hell fire, and all the other horrible paraphernalia of man’s diseased and terrified imagination. God exists; and the Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Present God is the loving Father of mankind.

If you would meditate upon this fact, until you had some degree of understanding of what it really means, most of your difficulties and physical ailments would disappear, for they are rooted in fear. If only you could realize to some extent that Omnipotent Wisdom is your living, loving Father, most of your fears would go. If you could realize it completely, every negative thing in your life would vanish away. Now you see the object that Jesus had in mind when he placed this clause first.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him (Genesis 1:27).

We can all think back to a time as a child when we were afraid and the mere presence of our Father caused the fear to melt away. We knew then, that the monster under the bed could not get us because Daddy was in the room. While our grown up fears may not all be imaginary like the monster under the bed, many if not most are imagined fears of things that may come to pass.

Regardless if our fears are as real as a mortgage payment we can’t make or as imaginary as the fear of failure, all our fears, real and imagined would melt away if we can have the childlike faith in our heavenly father that we had in our earthly father.

Courage is not the lack of fear, it is the ability to go forward even in fear. But courage is not the antidote to fear; faith in our heavenly Father is, and he is always in the room.

Today, let us realize Father, that you are always in our garden, and that our garden was created by you as a safe place where we can be free of fear and live in peace.

Faithfully yours,
Z gardener