Article January 18, 1993 Issue

Supply and demand

The Christian Science Monitor

The owner of a rental property was surprised when a longtime tenant vacated on short notice. She spent much time refurbishing and lovingly preparing the property before advertising it. Since she didn't yet have a new tenant, expenses soon threatened to deplete her savings.

As a Bible student, the owner was familiar with Christ Jesus' remarkable healings of sickness and sin and the many other problems of human existence. Hadn't he sent his disciple Simon Peter to find tax money in a fish's mouth? Hadn't he fed more than five thousand people with a few loaves and fishes? These examples of supplying the needs of his fellowman were not sleight-of-hand tricks. They were absolute proofs that our heavenly Father, God, answers prayer in practical ways.

The woman had turned to God many times before, and her prayers had always been answered. She realized that she could rely on God for help in this situation. Two Bible verses in II Corinthians were startling in their relevance. They emphasized to her that because supply and demand are spiritual, they must always be equal. Paul tells the Corinthians, "I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality."

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