IT is related in the fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel that Jesus was at one time led into the wilderness, where he was tempted of the devil, who ''said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread." And we are told that "Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."
The Word of God is the spiritual food for which all mankind hungers. To be fed spiritually is to receive into human consciousness the truth that God is the one Father-Mother and man is His image and likeness, until one perceives that his real being is not material, but spiritual, the reflection of God, Spirit. Feeding upon the Word of God, the bread from heaven, one grows in spiritual stature until his thought reaches that uplifted state whence he discerns the spiritual nature of all things.
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, uses the term "Mind" as one synonym in her definition of God. Thus she designates God as the source of all right ideas, which are infinite in number and spiritual in nature. "God is not influenced by man. The 'divine ear' is not an auditory nerve. It is the all-hearing and all-knowing Mind," she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 7), "to whom each need of man is always known and by whom it will be supplied."
