Explaining why one can trust God to supply all good, Mary Baker Eddy writes in her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 186), "Rest assured that He in whom dwelleth all life, health, and holiness, will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory." When we understand man's relationship to God as His child, we can declare with the Psalmist (Ps. 23:1), "I shall not want." God's child is an heir with full right to all that belongs to the Father.
Scripture states (I John 3:2), "Now are we the sons of God." Our approach to God, therefore, should be as sons, not as strangers. Prayer in Christian Science is not begging God for something He would otherwise withhold. In God's sight man is supplied now and always with all good. The mesmeric sense of limitation which the second account of creation in Genesis attributes to mortal man is false.
The spiritual sense of man and the material concept of existence represent the truth and the error of supply problems. Material sense is always insecure and troubled; it presents that which God did not create. Spiritual sense is harmonious and perfect, presenting God's man, who is ever at one with Love's largess. Understanding man's unity with divine Love, the Saviour never lacked anything under any circumstance. As we grasp the fact that man, God's likeness, is a witness to God's abundance and not a mortal trying to get it or make it real, our human experience becomes more harmonious.
