When you give your mental assent to any idea, good or bad, you associate yourself with that idea and you incorporate it into your consciousness; to the extent that you realize it. When you read a passage of Scripture you will, if you assent to it mentally, incorporate it into your life to that extent.
This law, of course, works the other way too. If when you hear or read of some piece of injustice or cruelty, you approve it mentally by thinking that “it serves him right,” you are associating yourself with that deed, and making it a part of your own life, even though you do not speak a word. It is the mental assent that counts.
Give your assent only to Truth.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my numbers, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity. So then with the mind; I myself serve the law of God. (Romans 7:22, 23, 25).
What we think and give assent to is what we are. If we serve God in our minds first, everything else will manifest God’s power and will in our lives. Not that this is easy; in fact it is the hardest part of being a follower of God. Once we conquer our minds, the rest of our world will yield to our faith.
So, let us continually strive to plant love and joy into our hearts, wills, consciousness and minds. When we do, our lives then become the gardens God created for us. And while gardening is never easy; properly done it creates a place of happiness, satisfaction and peace for us and for those in our lives.
Planting love,
Z gardener
Author’s note: Today we are joined by five new visitors to the garden. They are all pilgrims whose path is set on serving others through Christ. Each of them is a blessing to those they touch, and we are graced by their presence here in the Good Morning Garden.
Good Morning Garden 
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