In considering the needs of the times and the cry of lack on every side, the Christian Scientist knows that it is a lack of understanding of God and of spiritual values that is hindering the solving of the human problem; and this fear of limitation or loss has found many an unsuspected mental lodging place. But where it has gained entrance, there can one turn right-about face and with renewed effort and application of God's law of infinite goodness rout this enemy of peace. This enemy, the fear of limitation or loss, has no more power after being indulged for a season than it had when first admitted; for a lie told ten thousand times has no more power than it had when first admitted, is no more true; and so it is with any error claiming power by reason of long standing.
On the other hand, the meaning of that wonderfully comforting statement from the pen of our beloved Leader (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need," is evident to the beginner; and as the student advances through study and growth, it continues its appeal, revealing God's law of abundance as ever available.
What is the human need? Is it material or spiritual? Is it a need for more houses, more lands, more goods? Rather, is it not a need for a fuller understanding of God and His ways and means, of man made in His image and likeness; a need to know that "the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof"? Our actual spiritual estate, untouched by what is mistakenly accepted as real, is spiritual, eternal, a continual flow of good from God to man, an endless activity of ideas, messages, or intuitions, which ever direct and sustain. Our part, our business, is to keep our thoughts so continuously in unity with this spiritual source that the suggestions of error, lack, or loss cannot enter consciousness. We read from Psalms, "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot."
