Jesus of Nazareth had a most abundant sense of supply. His ability on a moment's notice, without previous human preparation, to feed more than five thousand hungry people at one time and four thousand at another (Matt. 14 and 15) demonstrated his understanding that the limitless abundance of good is available to everyone. Isaiah revealed that God acknowledges Himself as all-power and the source of all supply, for we read (Isa. 44: 24), "I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself."
What is spiritually true is manifested in a way that meets the human need of the one who accepts the truth, for human experience is determined by what is embraced in human thought. Our Master clearly recognized God's acknowledgment of the limitless goodness and godliness of man, His image and likeness. When he was baptized in Jordan, Jesus was so conscious of God's acknowledgment of the Christly nature and goodness of man's being that both he and John the Baptist heard a voice from heaven saying (Matt. 3:17), "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." That God ceaselessly maintains and acknowledges His loving relationship to all His children Jesus proved to mankind through his healing work, which revealed that all are in reality the sons of God. Speaking of the Wisemen's growing understanding, Mary-Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 164): "Their highest human concept of the man Jesus, that portrayed him as the only Son of God, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and Truth, will become so magnified to human sense, by means of the lens of Science, as to reveal man collectively, as individually, to be the son of God."
Acknowledgment of the presence of good does not originate in man, but in God, although man of necessity includes the present acknowledgment of all goodness as his, because he is God's spiritual reflection. Proportionately as one acknowledges this truth will it govern him and supply him with health, freedom, and abundance here and now. When one acknowledges the truth that God acknowledges, namely, that he is God's child, he demonstrates his oneness with God, his unity with all that is good. Commenting on spiritual healings which she had accomplished, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Unity of Good" (p. 7), "Certain self-proved propositions pour into my waiting thought in connection with these experiences; and here is one such conviction: that an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers a power nothing else can." God acknowledges the perfection, abundance, and goodness of everything that He has made, for we read in the Bible (Gen. 1:31), "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
