Would you be willing to do without food, a comfortable place to live, suitable clothes, money and what it will buy? These things seem necessary to a happy human existence and certainly it's not wrong for us to have them. But there is something even more fundamental that is needed.
Christian Science shows that what we really need is the correct concept of supply as spiritual ideas, because this reveals the infinitude of supply and silences the false belief of lack. Every idea in God, divine Mind, is infinite. Christ Jesus taught his followers to perceive supply as spiritual: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God"; Matt. 6:33; that is, seek the spiritual realm of ideas where all that truly is exists.
One definition of supply is, "a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance."' But true supply doesn't need to be stored up; because it consists of spiritual ideas and is never limited in any way. However, the true idea of supply as spiritual and the abundance of needful things that comes from the utilization of this understanding are obscured to those who think of everything as originating in matter, as both physical and pseudomental.
