Good Morning Garden

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell (Matthew 5:29-30).

The soul’s integrity is the one and only thing that matters. And so Jesus insists that positively no sacrifice can be too great to insure the integrity of one’s soul. Anything that stands in the way of that, must be given up.

Whatever is standing between us and our true contact with God; sin, an old grudge left unforgiven, stark greed for the things of this world, must go. Such things, however, are so obvious that at least the transgressor is aware of them; it is the subtle things like self-love, self-righteousness, and spiritual pride that are most difficult for the self to exercise.

There is nothing we can give up; no price we can pay that is greater that that which we receive by following God’s will. For when we overcome the “selfs” (self-love, self-righteousness, etc.); we open our spirits, consciousness and will to God’s Holy Spirit, Divine Will and Universal Consciousness. This opens the path for God to manifest His will through us and express God’s will into the physical world through us.

Z gardener