THE belief that divine help is a mysterious or supernatural force, available only to a few specially chosen people in isolated and extreme conditions, was forever proved false by the Man of Nazareth. As he went about, taking care of problems as they presented themselves in his day, ever changing discord into harmony, he gave abundant proof of the presence of an absolute and eternal law which is as available to one individual as to another, and as applicable to one problem as to another. These problems varied in their nature and importance from the supplying of that which was lacking for the wedding feast to the raising of Lazarus from the grave.
Problems do not change with the years so much as one is apt to believe. "Our problem" is neither so new nor so different; it is only one of these same old problems in modern settings. In the day of the man Christ Jesus there were problems of supply and of money, and he proved that they could be solved through the understanding and application of spiritual law just as readily as any other problem. Mrs. Eddy has said that "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" (Science and Health, p. 313). As he was the most scientific, he certainly was the richest man that ever walked the earth.
What is called the poverty of Jesus, the man who had nowhere to lay his head, has often been made the basis of appeal to emotion and sympathy; there is, however, no word or act of his on record that justifies the assumption that he ever experienced poverty or knew a lack. His understanding of the omnipresence of the one eternal substance and law gave him absolute dominion over the nonentity called matter and its assumed laws; his understanding that supply is where God is, and that man is forever at-one with it, gave him not only a present consciousness of supply, but precluded any possible anxiety for the future.
