FOR every need there is available an abundant supply. "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want," the Psalmist declared (Ps. 23:1). Supply is, therefore, of God, and because God, the source, is ever present and infinite, supply is ever present and infinite.
What is the greatest need of men? Is it material things, or is it an understanding of God? Jesus' answer to this question is found in that great sermon of his which we call the Sermon on the Mount. He 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 after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 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."
The human needs such as food, drink, housing, health, and so forth, the Saviour recognized as legitimate and necessary to human experience. But they were not the most important things. The seeking of the kingdom of God comes first, he said. And this seeking, this hunger and thirst after righteousness, he promised, will bring to mankind whatever material supply is needed. Such supply is not scant or scarce, but is abundant, for Jesus' very purpose, according to John (10:10), was that men "might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
