Good Morning Garden

Have you an open mind? Is the window of your soul open for fresh air and the sunshine of Truth to come in, or is it closed and shuttered by mental laziness or the emotional congestion that we call prejudice?

None of us knows how many fine things we have missed through being self-satisfied and cocksure. No one can be considered really intelligent who does not have a readiness to examine new ideas with an open mind.

The history of scientific discovery shows that almost every new step was opposed by the very people who should have welcomed it.

Harvey was denounced for claiming that the blood circulated through the body; Galileo was persecuted for saying that the earth went round the sun; Pasteur was branded a quack for advancing the germ theory of disease; Jenner was threatened with the police for pioneering vaccination. The finality of the atom, which was a scientific dogma in the child hood of most of us, has been completely discarded.

Probably the only incorrigible fool is the man who says that anything is impossible, or that there is any limit to the conquests that divine Intelligence working in mankind can achieve.

The Lord is able to give thee much more than this (2 Chronicles 25:9).

It is only when we rise above the human limitations of sensory-based perception, that we are able to truly open our hearts, spirits and minds. The Bible says, “their wisdom (non-believers), will make them foolish, and our (believers) foolishness will make us wise”.

Consider this; those who persecuted and ridiculed the great scientists mentioned above, were the “wise” of their age. Just as the Scribes and Pharisees who attacked Jesus, were the “wise” of their community. All were made foolish by their “wisdom”.

So today, let us rise above our puny human limitations and open our minds and our hearts to the infinite wisdom of God’s word. Let us rise above the hubris of human assumptions that we can know everything, or even truly understand anything, based on our limited capability. It is only God’s capability operating through our open minds, that make us truly wise.

Mind open,

Z gardener