Article November 26, 1966 Issue

Supply and Demand Are Spiritual

FRANCES FIGGINS

We sometimes hear students of Christian Science say, "I have had many physical healings, but when it comes to supply, that's another story!" Nothing seems more aggressive and burdensome to human sense than the false supposition that matter, with all its limitations, is real and substantial and has power to circumscribe our experiences and limit both demand and supply. When we fail to find supply for every need, it is because we are looking in the wrong direction for it! Matter cannot think nor act; it lacks wisdom and intelligence; it has no ideas to give. Fear of lack, doubts, and misgivings disappear as we guard against the false carnal mind with its worry, distrust, greed, or vacillation, all of which would rob us of the changeless substance of eternal Spirit, God.

We learn in Christian Science that supply and demand are one and are divinely mental or spiritual. Supply is in reality divine substance, God, or Mind, evidenced in God's limitless abundance of spiritual ideas. There is perfect balance between supply and demand. Supply needs demand to call it forth; and God, the All-in-all, holds within Himself the substance of His own nature forever finding expression in man.

Spiritual riches are acquired as the Christ, Truth, gently detaches thought from a material sense of existence, which includes poverty and limitation, and unites it with omnipresent, ever-unfolding divine Mind and its abundance of ideas. These words by Mrs. Eddy bear close study: "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment." ^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307;}

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