Article July 23, 1979 Issue

Milk, honey, and no inflation

Written for the Sentinel

If we ever are on the verge of doubting God's loving care for mankind, we need only turn to the Bible. There we can find comforting truths, which explain that it is never God's will for any of His children to suffer a lack of good. Efficacious biblical truths can be freely understood and applied by us all. Although they are not taught in the business schools, they are potent beyond the academic's fondest theory of supply and demand.

We need not hesitate to apply simple, spiritual, Bible-based truths to our money troubles. Mrs. Eddy points out the need to look above human abilities. "The talent and genius of the centuries have wrongly reckoned," she writes. "They have not based upon revelation their arguments and conclusions as to the source and resources of being,—its combinations, phenomena, and outcome,—but have built instead upon the sand of human reason. They have not accepted the simple teaching and life of Jesus as the only true solution of the perplexing problem of human existence."^{ Unity of Good, p. 9;}

Consider the situation of the children of Israel described in Deuteronomy, for example. During their journey in the wilderness, the people had been abundantly fed; their clothing had not worn out. Later, the Lord brought them into a land of plenty where they could cultivate fertile land. Iron and copper deposits abounded. For some at least there was wealth. (See Deut. 8.) Underpinning this description—what might seem the Utopian dream of the naive—in place of law courts and legislatures, banks and credit, there were simple rules, starting with the Ten Commandments. Timelessly, these protect prosperity, not because an abundance of things is necessarily godly but because, in reality, spiritual ideas reflect effortlessly the processless everpresence of God, good. This reflection is our model of reality.

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