No Limitation in Truth

STANLEY C. MORGAN

The Psalmist, referring to the disobedience of the people, said, "They spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?" This question epitomizes the human doubt that divine aid can meet human needs in circumstances where supply appears to be humanly impossible. The Scriptures record many instances in which the realization of Spirit's supremacy overcame the belief in lack or limitation.

In the fourteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel it is related that when Jesus had departed "into a desert place" a great multitude followed him out of the cities. There he healed their sick, and having thus fed the people spiritually, he proceeded to prove, contrary to material belief, that Love could also supply them with their temporary food. He demonstrated the truth, overcoming the sense of limitation, and proved that no set of circumstances can prevent the realization and demonstration of spiritual abundance. Anxiety for daily supplies is therefore overcome through spiritual understanding. In his Sermon on the Mount, our Master gave the express command, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on."

What seems to be limitation is primarily the human belief in limits, made manifest in experience. Matter is not the solid substance which human belief claims it to be. When this is recognized, it will be seen that matter can neither help nor hinder the right endeavor to demonstrate the truth of supply as Jesus did.

It was by purely spiritual means that Christ Jesus changed the water into wine and multiplied the loaves and fishes, showing that God, the Father, is indeed the source of supply for all human needs. These demonstrations were not a display of supernatural power, but the natural operation of divine law, before which limitation disappears. The loving Way-shower, who demonstrated the limitlessness of good, desired every man, woman, and child to follow his example in demonstrating man's God-given dominion over all the earth. The works that he did his followers will do also proportionably to their spiritual understanding of his teachings regarding the true nature of Spirit.

Jesus taught that God is Spirit, and by his knowledge of the nothingness of matter and material laws he demonstrated the allness of Spirit. Spirit is the only real substance. This fundamental fact is stated by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she writes (p. 508), "The only intelligence or substance of a thought, a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it." Illimitable Spirit is the substance of all that really exists.

Matter, or "the flesh," as the Master called it, "profiteth nothing." With this understanding, Jesus proved his God-given dominion over error. In a sleeping dream, matter seems to be but is not; and it is no more real or substantial in the waking dream of life in matter. According to the record in the first chapter of Genesis, matter or the flesh is no part of God's creation. In the allegorical account in the second chapter of Genesis, "the dust of the ground" is referred to as the substance of the Adam-dream of mortal existence. Mistaking the false for the true, men have believed the dream narrative to be the true record of creation, continuing to stumble along blindly until the Science of Christianity awakens their thought to the reality of being.

It requires true meekness to deny self and mortality and to acknowledge the allness and oneness of Spirit, God. It means rejecting the mortally mental qualities which constitute the flesh—self-will, self-love, pride, envy, hatred, and such like—and replacing them with the divinely mental qualities which reflect Spirit, such as love, joy, gentleness, goodness, mercy, wisdom. In proportion as this is done, thought rises above limited and limiting physical sense into the unlimited spiritual realm of reality; and this spiritual-mindedness is made manifest in abundant supply for human needs. Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."

How encouraging it is to know that the Master proved conclusively man's infinite capacity for good, as the reflection of God! Man was given dominion over all the earth. There is, therefore, no limit to the good which can be demonstrated through spiritual understanding of Truth. Our Leader has written (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183), "Man is God's image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection."

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