You know how it is with me. Something triggers inspiration and off I go with another blog post. What caused it this morning was reading our Master's assurance in the Sermon on the Mount where he says: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." I said to myself, how true this is. I have experienced Jesus' promise over the years, and I know other Christian Scientists have. But what I'm primarily interested in with this blog post is reaching out to those who will be coming across this blog for the first time, who are not yet acquainted with what our religion brings out about supply. To this end, I invite y'all (I do live in the south!) to contribute proofs you have had of God's unfailing supply--whatever the up and down economic cycles may be, or have been.
Way back in October, I think it was, posted a blog entry on our Father's supply being recession-proof. And in it, I quoted something the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science stated, which I feel is worth reiterating for anyone who may have missed it. This includes students of her teachings, as well as newcomers to the divine metaphysics which underpinned Jesus' demonstrations, and which Christian Science brings to light.
In the book We knew Mary Baker Eddy, one of Mrs. Eddy's pupils recalled a discussion in which she said: "When you stand before a mirror and look at your reflection, it is the same as the original. Now you are God's reflection. If His hands are full, your hands are full, if you image Him. You cannot know lack." (p. 134).
Now, of course, this does not mean that God's hands are full of money but that His goodness is inexhaustible. It means that God has made man in His image and likeness and loves His creation and gives us all good. It points to the unchanging spiritual fact that you and I don't have to live with nagging fear or insufficient income, since we have a loving Father whose care for His offspring is all-encompassing and eternally sure.
What dawned on me this morning more clearly than ever before was this: it is actually a sin to believe in lack. It dishonors God when we make a god out of limitation. It flies in the face of all our Lord and Savior came to prove for us, of all he taught and made clear we are to believe without equivocation, without any doubt whatsoever. Yes, I know someone will say, it may be easy for you to say this. Perhaps you haven't just lost your job or your house, or much of your 401k account. Still, despite feeling like we're swimming upstream with millions of fishes coming down when we hold to divine facts about God and man, still they are the eternal truth. They worked in Jesus' time. And they produce results in ours. I have proved this. I know many others of you have done likewise.
Let me bring out something that will seem revolutionary to someone new to the teachings of Christian Science but is full of practical help and encouragement. Our experience is actually mental and what we hold in thought habitually does shape our human experience. Equipped with the divine truths Jesus knew and proved, equipped with the the teachings of divine Science, one holds salvation in the palm of his hand, so to speak. It isn't a matter of going anywhere to find better conditions, not primarily. It is lifting thought to behold divine reality, seeing what God has and man has through reflection. As someone once put it, with elevated spiritual understanding, you can demonstrate supply right where you are sitting or standing. A spiritually illumined consciousness is going to be manifested in improved human conditions. Actually, Christian Science does not create supply; it reveals it. It is already ours, as the Master's words make plain: "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is withi you." (Luke 17:20, 21)
Again, I invite you to contribute whatever God inspires you to say. There are people who will be reading this who really need your proofs that His supply is independent of whatever is going on the world today.
