He who is anxiously concerned about his daily supply will find practical aid through God's abundant grace and mercy, if he will wake to realize God's provision for all His creation. Think what it means to a person who is believing that he has come to the end of his resources, to find that reserved for him is an inexhaustible supply which is his to draw upon unstintingly. In one such instance, to a woman who was in great financial distress this gratifying experience came through realizing, by means of Christian Science, the spiritual import of Peter's words in reference to "an inheritance incorruptible, and undented, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven," as he said, for those "who are kept by the power of God through faith." The consciousness that she had something in reserve to draw upon literally swept away the fear and panic in her thought, and brought the assurance that God was sustaining and supporting her. In this manner her thought was lifted above the material belief of lack into the realization of spiritual abundance, and the needed demonstration was easily made.
Then there came a time when it was so generally voiced by those whom she met that supply was limited, restricted, or that it was entirely gone, that before she was aware of the subtle error her sense of God's inexhaustible provision had become clouded, and her own supply began to diminish. Rousing herself from this apathy, she turned to divine Mind and asked in humble prayer that her spiritual sense might be restored. Shortly afterwards, through the following experience, ideas began to unfold with divine import. So her thought became imbued with spiritual facts, and the mental obscuration which had limited her demonstration of God-given supply gave way to light.
While she was driving in the country, a turn in the road brought to her view an enormous reservoir of water which supplies several million people in a near-by city. Here she saw an abundant supply of fresh, clear, wholesome water reserved for each individual who made the effort to get it. Whether or not he was conscious of it, whether or not he used it, the supply for him remained the same. Countless homes were piped to receive this water, which, through the turning of a faucet, could flow into the house, where it would cleanse, revive, quench, and restore as the need might be. She saw further that if anyone found that he was not receiving his supply he would investigate the trouble. He would find out what it was that was causing the obstruction and have it removed. It would be foolish for such an individual to sit passively by and believe that there was no water for him. Common sense would make him realize and demand that he receive what was his as a citizen of that community.
