When our consciousness is filled with truths of God and His perfect spiritual creation, we lose the sense of limitation. We cannot hope to solve the problem of lack if we think of it as a reality. According to Christian Science we must see it as only a mesmeric illusion to be dispelled through the understanding of God's completeness and of man's sonship with Him. The fallacy that supply is material fosters another untruth, namely, that there is not a sufficient amount for all. But because God, divine Love, is infinite Spirit and is perfectly just, all men, in reality, share His goodness equally; no one can be deprived of his God-given good any more than the sun's rays can be severed from the sun.

God is infinite good. Christian Science reveals man as God's reflection, the expression of the infinitude of good. Good is something we must recognize, not gain, for it already constitutes our real, spiritual identity. Since God is indivisible, man, who is actually His image and likeness, partakes of the unbroken continuity of God's goodness.

Man, as the spiritual reflection of Mind, God, exists to express the qualities of Mind. His supply, therefore, consists of spiritual ideas emanating from Mind. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives." ^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 5} Realization that true substance is made up of ideas and is therefore ever available unfolds good in human experience.

Spiritual ideas are boundless, infinite. There can never be any monopoly or scarcity of ideas since God, inexhaustible Mind, is their source and multiplier. A demonstrable understanding of supply is measured by receptivity to spiritual ideas and the utilization of them. These ideas are ever active, ever operative, always at hand. Having their origin in divine Principle, they reflect the power of Mind's all-action and increase in human consciousness with use and through sharing.

On the other hand, lack is a false sense that man is separated from his Father-Mother God, the Giver of all good. Mortal mind, the source of this limited concept, knows nothing beyond its own finity and suggests lack in every direction. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "Belief produces the results of belief, and the penalties it affixes last so long as the belief and are inseparable from it." ^{Science and Health, p. 184}

The false conception that one's supply is dependent upon fluctuating matter is the basis of lack. What is the answer to this falsity? We must empty human thought of every suggestion of materiality and limitation. We shall then receive the abundance of spiritual ideas emanating from divine Mind. These ideas are really ever present since God is omnipotent and omnipresent and the substance of good is eternally ours.

Honesty, accuracy, orderliness, kindness, alertness, and courtesy are a few of the God-derived qualities that result in abundant supply. We are responsible for the quality of our thoughts, and true success in any endeavor is dependent on correct thinking. Capabilities are enlarged as Godlike qualities are expressed in dealings with our fellowmen. God's spiritual law of good controls all real activity. Understanding and obeying this law annuls all so-called material laws of variable good. God's law is stable, unchanging, perpetual; and it is available to all men.

Conversely, the material sense of supply is unreliable, intermittent, and visionary because it is based on the belief that matter is real substance. Ignorant of the fact that God's man reflects all good, mortals consider that worldly possessions are their tangible security. But spiritual growth teaches mankind that such possessions do not constitute true supply and have no permanent value. However, one should understand that there is nothing wrong with material abundance when it is the demonstrated result of unselfish love and the understanding that spiritual substance is supply.

In any human need, whether of home, position, or finances, the necessity is to gain spiritual ideas, which, when put to practical use, provide the answer to all human requirements. We do not demonstrate plenteous supply to gratify physical sense but to glorify God, to express Him. If the human need is a right sense of home, then the spiritual understanding that man's real home is in Mind, where he dwells secure, will help meet that need. Realizing that the real man is continuously employed in reflecting the spiritual qualities of Mind, can one remain for long unemployed? Knowing that work is a loving service—giving, not getting—can one be without a satisfactory position?

The Master, reflecting Christ, Truth, in full measure and ever aware of his spiritual identity, knew only abundance of good. Of human necessities he said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." ^{Matt. 6:33} This does not imply that we should seek the understanding of God and His infinite goodness that we may acquire material things. But through keeping God first in the affections we see the needed good appear naturally in our experience.

The parable of the prodigal son, seen in the light that Christian Science throws on the Scriptures, can remind us that man, in reality, has never left his Father's home, the consciousness of love and harmony and abundance of good. He has never wandered in the maze of materiality and limitation, for he is the spiritual idea ever at one with God. When we understand the fact that man's rich inheritance of good is eternally intact, we hear the benediction resounding anew, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." ^{Luke 15:31}