THE problem of lack is so worldwide that the Christian Scientist needs to do some clear, constructive thinking about it. Money claims, through its absence, to bring about conditions of poverty and limitation; whereas, scientifically speaking, the real man always has abundance. According to divine Science, all the material conditions and circumstances that claim to govern mortals are part of a discordant dream: they are externalizations of erroneous material thinking. People who have confidence in the ability of Christian Science to heal their sicknesses are willing also to rely on its truth for their daily bread.
Referring to Truth as being more potent than any lower remedies in the healing of disease, our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 181), "And why not, since Mind, God, is the source and condition of all existence?" To one student the truth that God is "the source and condition" of all existence has been a constant inspiration.
In Proverbs there is the beautiful prayer—"Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me." Because God, good, has made all that is, what is called matter is not true supply. The real man, being the expression of God, reflects true substance. One's need, primarily, is never for money, though mortals are tempted to think otherwise. The yearning for money, as such, beclouds thought; but the truth, brought to bear upon a problem, uplifts and spiritualizes one's thinking, until it is seen that man, as God's idea, is not circumscribed by matter; neither is he governed by either poverty or riches. When we believe that we lack something, this belief shuts out the evidence of spiritual abundance. But Principle governs all that really exists.
