Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced a sense of lack. Our supply has been limited and inadequate because we have looked to a material source for it. Christian Science contradicts mortal opinion and teaches that supply comes as the result of an illumined state of thought, a recognition of spiritual good. A state of thought which brings needed supply into one's experience is always available to right-thinking individuals.
The children of Israel in their early wilderness experience suffered an acute sense of lack. To their materially darkened senses the stark emptiness of the wilderness offered no solution to their problem. Remembering the fleshpots of Egypt, they looked to matter for their supply and failed to receive it. Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gives the reason for this in her statement in "No and Yes": "Ever-present Love must seem ever absent to ever-present selfishness or material sense. Hence this asking amiss and receiving not, and the common idolatry of man-worship. In divine Science, God is recognized as the only power, presence, and glory."No and Yes, p. 20;
To Moses' illumined thought came God's promise of supply. Then the people beheld "the glory of the Lord" as it "appeared in the cloud,"Ex. 16:10; and their immediate difficulty was solved.
