Article December 1, 1934 Issue

Silencing the Lie of Lack

DONNA BARTLETT

Sometimes a student of Christian Science, having overcome many physical ills, has so long struggled with a financial problem that he is tempted to believe it is more difficult to heal lack than sickness. This should be recognized as error's whispering, and promptly denied, for as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 210), "Jesus healed sickness and sin by one and the same metaphysical process."

A condition of lack is a negation of the spiritual fact that divine Love's provision is present here and now in unlimited abundance for all His children. As manifest in human experience, lack is the result of believing that another power, variously named economic law, world depression, business failure, bad investment, unemployment, can render void the ever-operative law of Love's supply. It is an effect of breaking the First Commandment, for it supposes that He who made all and made it good left something to be made by another creator which could nullify His work. Lack is a lie against God, as impotent as it is unreal. The only power a lie can seem to have is the power mortals falsely ascribe to it. Christian Science has uncovered the lie of lack as completely as it has uncovered the lie of disease; and it should be seen that one lie is no more true than another. In proportion to the alertness and persistence with which he refutes each lie the material senses present to his consciousness, will the student of Christian Science prove its nothingness.

Our Leader warns us that "the wrong thought should be arrested before it has a chance to manifest itself" (ibid., p. 452). Let the one who thinks it less easy to heal a condition of lack than of sickness ask himself if he is as quick to deny the suggestions of poor business and unemployment as he is to refute those of illness. If he hears tales of financial loss and hardship, does he instantly mentally proclaim God's infinite, immanent munificence? Does he silently assure himself that the Father's illimitable riches are never lost? Does he affirm that these riches are spiritual, indestructible, and always available to man, who reflects the Father's love? Does he immediately displace the argument of economic depression with an acknowledgment that the divine Mind is forever expressing itself in fruitful ideas, and that the activity of love between man and his Maker and between all of God's ideas is unbroken?

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