Supply
from Lessons of the Seventh Day, (the “Brown Book”),
by Mary Baker Eddy
God is the Principle and Life of all His ideas. Since He is therefore the only source of all that constitutes a “living” man’s living is made; God has made it and man is dependent only on God for it.
We are able to recognize that this Principle must be Love because the Principle which sustains and maintains all can include in itself no element of oppositeness. Principle must manifest Love in all its activities. This maintaining power is Infinite Wisdom, and is Omnipotence, and this supply can never fail nor be diminished else God would cease to be God.
Ideas cannot accumulate in one place and be absent from another, for there is no place where the Law of God is inoperative; there can be no such concept as lack in the consciousness of man.
It is sin for us to limit ourselves in any way, for Mind possesses infinite resources with which to bestow on us its infinite abundance, whether it be any what is termed worldly goods, money, understanding to heal, power to heal, intelligence to act and accomplish, or what not.
The very fact that these resources are everpresent shows us that we are with them. They are a part of us and we therefore exist at the standpoint of opportunity to make them manifest; so do not be surprised if you find silver in the fish’s mouth — indeed, don’t let Love surprise you, but be so open and receptive to it, that you cannot help receiving what it has for you.
We are the creations of our own thoughts. The altitude of our thought is the magnitude of our God. God is infinite. Therefore there need be no limits to any supply that we can widen our souls to receive.
We demonstrate Life, Truth, and Love and they give us our supplies; we do not demonstrate material things.
God is law; you are obedience. God is answer; you are prayer. God is supply; you are demand.
God is abundance. God supplies only abundance. Malicious mental malpractice cannot rob me of this abundance. It cannot impoverish me spiritually, mentally or financially. A demonstration of this is an abundance of light, Truth, intelligence and all material needs. All is God — Good — All is Mind.
Mortal mind cannot embrace me in the claim of poverty, in the claim of matter or fear — all this is mesmerism and cannot embrace me in it. What a glorious inheritance is ours through the understanding of omnipotent Love. We cannot want to have a more sweet assurance than this: “Peace, be still.” (See Mis. 307:5.)
Sad, sad thought that money regulates the actions of so many ,students. Had your Leader been governed thus, Christian Science would have been minus today, instead of overcoming all opposition, ruling and reigning….I have worked for all without money or price till God paid me in His own way. It is safe to go and do likewise. I left house, home and friends, and I gave up a large salary, as a writer, in order to serve the Cause of Christian Science. I have endured all shame and blame in its behalf, and I have lived these down. This is the experience of your Leader.
Are her followers willing to take up their crosses, as she has taken up hers, in order to follow Christ, or do they demand all that they humanly want?
My income is the incoming of right ideas. It comes instantly, constantly, continually day and night. It is my God being. We do not work for money to come through personality.
Divine Love increases and blesses our supply. Whatever is mine, is mine now; nothing can come between me and my perfect supply — neither time nor space. Supply is therefore here and now. There is nothing that can take it away from me, for there is but one power, all harmonious, beautiful. It is possible for us to do everything that it is right to do.
God cannot be impoverished; man cannot be impoverished. I know poverty is an error that Truth destroys.
There is no illusion of poverty. God made all, owns all there is, and it is good. I am joint-heir with Christ, in God, and have my share of everything. I am exempt from want, loss, lack or limitation of any kind. There is no material resistance that can limit me. “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”
Abundance cannot lapse into lack, since God is my fountain source of infinite riches and plenty. I can and do demonstrate the wealth which comes from God with no interruption in its flow. I am prosperous and successful, kept so by an inexhaustible supply. Animal magnetism cannot touch me with a claim of poverty in any way in myself, nor in anyone, for Spirit is my unlimited source of supply.