PROBABLY two of the greatest problems confronting mankind today are those of income and outgo. The view which sees income as something that must be earned by the sweat of the brow or by mere human smartness has not brought lasting security or success to anyone, and none may know this better than the employer and employee. Many are finding that material methods present no way out of their difficulties regarding supply, and that the only solution must come through a spiritual understanding of God and His government of man.
Christian Science reveals the true nature of income and outgo as spiritual, never material. Income, rightly discerned, consists of the coming to or appearing in human consciousness of right ideas. These right ideas emanate from their eternal source, God, the only Mind. They are the heritage of man, God's likeness, and manifest the nature and attributes of God. Spiritual man —and he is the only real man—has always been conscious of this true income of good which belongs to him by divine right.
In the human sense of employment an individual's income often appears to cause anxiety and is sometimes inadequate. According to this type of reckoning, one's income often varies with changing business conditions and depends upon stamina, education, or other human factors. Man's true income, however, is unlike that of mortals and is never subject to fluctuations of any kind, for it is not controlled by matter conditions or beliefs. Coming from God, the only power and presence, man's income cannot be diverted or lost.
