The true record of creation, as given in the first chapter of Genesis, in which God is revealed as the creator of all good and man as His image and likeness, shows us that our source of supply is inexhaustible and omnipresent. This great fact is constant, immovable, unfailing. The only way we could possibly be separated from it would be in belief, and false belief can be instantly destroyed.
It is comforting to remember that the truth we know, even in a degree, is much more powerful than anything we seem to have, learned from error. Error has no power to withstand the allness of Truth. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 23), "All things earthly must ultimately yield to the irony of fate, or else be merged into the one infinite Love."
The short book of Joel in the Old Testament colorfully depicts the desolation and failure of the old order of belief in a material universe and the beauty and joy of the new understanding gained through knowledge of God. In the second chapter, twenty-fifth verse, the prophet joyfully proclaims God's promise, "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten;" and this further promise follows: "And ye, shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed."
