If we trace the derivation of the word hallowed we will discover a most extraordinarily significant fact. The word hallowed has the same root as holy, whole, wholesome, and heal, or healed; so we see that the nature of God is complete and perfect; altogether good. Some very remarkable consequences follow from this fact. We have agreed that an effect must be similar in its nature to its cause, and so, because the nature of God is hallowed, everything that is projected by that Cause must be hallowed or perfect too. God cannot cause or send anything but perfect good. God cannot, as people sometimes think, send sickness or trouble, or accidents, much less death, for these things are unlike His nature.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. (Habakkuk 1:13).
The ramifications of this truth is nothing less than astounding! If God’s nature is perfect, then so is ours. How then, we may ask, does so much misery and strife afflict us? Simply put, it arises from our separation from God, denial of His will and refusal to accept His truth. So the intellectual cynic would respond that, “so, earthquakes and natural disasters are caused by our separation from God, huh? Let those with ears to hear take heed of this. God will turn the wisdom of men into foolishness.
The response to the “foolishly wise” would be to invite them to follow the proscriptions of the Lord’s Prayer for a week and then determine if their garden has become any greener, any more peaceful or any more joyful regardless of their outward circumstances. It is in what the world considers our foolishness of faith that we are made truly wise.
So, let us pray that the “humanly wise” brothers and sisters take the leap of faith, accept the puny limitations of human intellect and reason, and breathe in the miraculous, affirming, good and all loving breathe of Godly wisdom and love. Ahhhhh, what wondrous things we behold when the scales drop from our eyes and we behold true, Godly wisdom.
Being foolish,
Z gardener
Author’s Note: today we are blessed with the presence of two new sisters in the garden. They are both dedicated Mother’s and believers. Welcome to the garden.
Z
Good Morning Garden 
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