In days of famine the Israelites of old demonstrated on many occasions that God is the only real source of supply. Throughout the Psalms many references are made to the fact that all that is good and true must stem from the one and only origin, God. "A land flowing with milk and honey" was considered by these peoples as indicative of the Father's tender love and care for His children. When good crops rewarded the early tillers of the soil, the inevitable response on their part was to give Him the credit, to tithe the increase, and to recognize His munificence.
Why, then, should not men nowadays turn directly to the divine source of all good for their supply in every instance? Jesus said (Matt. 6:31–33): "Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? ... For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." All we need to do is to remove the ignorance, doubt, and fear from our thought and replace them with the enlightenment, faith, and understanding which see only the good, the true, and the pure. The spiritual understanding of God as the Giver of all good, and of man as God-governed and God-sustained, brings intelligent confidence, enduring concord, and a continuing abundance of blessings.
The real man, reflecting the divine Mind, can express only the qualities of that Mind, the perfect source of all true substance and intelligence. In order for these qualities to be apparent in human experience, the human consciousness needs to understand this Mind and demonstrate it by accepting only its thoughts. Science draws a clear distinction between the sons of God and the so-called progeny of Adam; thus it is to dispel the beliefs of material origin, lack, and limitation that Science has come. The counterfeit sense of creation, or the Adam-dream, is all that needs to be dispelled, and it is dispelled by Christ, Truth, which makes manifest God's kingdom "in earth, as it is in heaven."
