(Following along on a previous blog post on the topic of finding work, I hope the following thoughts might be useful to someone on the vast Internet who is struggling with lack of supply. Christian Science, having done a lot for me in this direction, I owe it to the world to help where I can.)
Did you know that it is entirely possible for any person to move through these economically challenging times undisturbed, having all he needs? Well, you can. In fact, you can start right now to eliminate lack from his thought and life. People have as much right to be saved from poverty as from sin and disease. And this salvation is possible through the understanding that we are the spiritual creation of God, illimitable good, and that we have the right to show forth the infinite good of our true being here and now.
Despite the world's belief that we are mortals with material needs that somehow must be supplied from without, the truth is we are God's perfect, spiritual offspring, maintained forever by Him in a state of completeness.
Numerous statements showing the illegitimacy of lack can be found in the Bible. For example, we are plainly told in Genesis 1 that God gave the man He created dominion over all the earth. But how very little dominon there is in struggling to eke out enough money for food and rent! The solution is to realize that we are not mortals, that our heavenly Father has made us as His spiritual expression, to express His fullness -- not to gravel for good. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (page 260): Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done..."
Divine Principle finished its work. When God created us, He left nothing out, not one jot of what we need to bear Him joyful witness. All that the false, physical senses can do is to close our eyes -- in belief -- to the infinite spiritual good we have always had.
Christ Jesus showed mankind the way to master fear of not having enough. He revealed the precise whereabouts of all true good -- its infinitude -- when he delcared, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:20, 21)
Our dear Lord and Master also revealed God's bountiful care of His children in the parable of the prodigal, the son who ran through his inheritance. The young man finally came to his senses, Luke tells us, and returned home. For this ragged sinner any old clothes would have sufficied, but, no, the loving and generous father ordered the best rob for his son -- and a ring and shoes and a sumptuous feast. Jesus was telling us this is how our heavenly Father treats us when we come to ourselves and go home -- when we awake through Christ, Truth, to our true status as God's spiritual offspring and to the good eternally ours.
Jesus also told us how to demosntrate abundance consistently, "Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." (6:38) Whatever our line of work, practicing our true selfhood through self-forgetful service, through lovingly doing for others, in turn supplies our own needs.
A person may be failing to demonstrate the abundance of his true being because, like a doubting Thomas, he is thinking: "Show me the money, then I'll believe God can provide the rent." But God demands of us the same radical reliance on Him in a situation of lack as in a physical difficulty. We have to look beyond what the material senses are saying about us and our financial condition, and recognize ourselves as the complete idea of inexhaustible good, incapable of experienceing limitation of any kind. I have learned that to conquer lack one must realize the omnipresence of Spirit as the only true substance.
It's right to have all we need -- to have abundance. It's impossible not to when we grasp the fact that as God's idea, we continuously reflect the fullness of infinite Spirit. Christian Science clears up the misconception many God-fearing people have that somehow one is nearer God when lacking the world's goods. But this is not what Jesus taught and proved at all.
Something the Discoverer and Founder of my religion once said to a student of hers has helped me immensely. "When first establishing this Cause, I needed money, but I have now learned that God is with me, that He gives me everything, and I cannot lack." She also 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." (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, page 134)
On this powerful note, I shall leave it.
