Individuals who have had little or no difficulty in demonstrating the Principle of Christian Science in overcoming the claims of physical disability, need have no more difficulty in meeting a claim of financial lack. An apparent lack of supply should yield instantly, or within a short time, to their knowing and affirming of the truth.
Since we may note on page 45 of "Miscellaneous Writings" and on page 494 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," both by Mary Baker Eddy, that supply is always equal to demand, may it not be that an individual is unknowingly beginning at the wrong end of the problem? If his attempt to realize abundant supply is not promptly successful, perhaps the trouble is not with what he knows about supply, but with what he does not know about demand. The question from this viewpoint, therefore, is, What is right demand, and on what should we make our demand?
On page 250 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader writes: "Love is not something put upon a shelf, to be taken down on rare occasions with sugar-tongs and laid on a rose-leaf. I make strong demands on love, call for active witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand achievements as its results;" and she continues, "Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or goodness without activity and power." Would not our realization of supply be more instant, more adequate and satisfying, if we followed our Leader's example more faithfully? How do we make demands on love? Well, we can make a stronger demand on love only by expressing more love ourselves, living it and radiating it to others. The strength of our demand on love is in proportion to the degree of our reflection and expression of divine Love in our own loving and lovableness. Then may we not deduce that our supply of all things needful will also be in direct proportion to our greater manifestation of love?
