OUR understanding of supply, either as a church or as individuals, is in direct ratio to our understanding of God, who is infinite good, infinite intelligence, infinite substance. Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Jesus came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Yet he also said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" And again he said, "The flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
We may prove it true that to know God and His Christ is life; for the more we know of God, understand His nature, His substance, character, and activities, the more abundantly we express or manifest life. Man, to be the likeness of God, must express these qualities. In fact, since God is All-in-all, there is nothing else for man to express, and nothing else to supply his needs. God being All-in-all, man, His offspring, can lack nothing. The infinite supply is his to draw from. These spiritual facts, unfolding to and governing human consciousness, will be expressed in harmonious human experience; for the truth has more power than material evidence, and becomes the law of adjustment and readjustment to human affairs.
As new views of Truth unfold to us, and we begin to discern the nature of inexhaustible Mind, full of ideas which we have not even guessed at, perception is quickened and comprehension grasps and marvels at the revelation. There is no limit to divine thoughts. There is nothing to interfere with reaching into infinite Mind and laying hold of the good that God has for His children. We have this inspired statement from Mrs. Eddy to help us: "Whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183). We have been educated to believe that our human experience is something outside of our thought; but if it were outside of our thought, we should not know anything about it. There could be no human experience without thought to produce it; hence, what governs human thought governs human experience. Our part in it is what we think. Mrs. Eddy says in "Christian Healing" (p. 12), "All physical effects originate in mind before they can become manifest as matter."
