I talked with someone recently who started a new business and needed more paying customers to cover expenses. She expressed concern that her savings would soon run out and require her to shut down operations.

Aw, I thought. She is putting more trust in her savings than she is in God! Oh, what a subtle temptation this is.

We are generally taught that savings are a good thing to have, and available to draw upon when we’re experiencing financial shortfalls. Millions of people engage this practice. I’ve done it. But, I continued to reason, is putting trust in a savings account going to make a spiritual demonstration of supply coming from God?

There must be a higher spiritual position to take, I pondered…

My job as a Christian Science practitioner is to help people find their supply needs met in God. I’ve seen divine aide at work dozens of times over the years giving people unexpected funds where there were no funds, paying expenses in seemingly miraculous ways and creating income streams where financial gain looked impossible.

God does watch out for us, but we have a role to play in allowing the divine hand to work its wonders in our financial lives. It’s a role of humility, willingness to go where God leads, and having trust in spiritual substance over cash in the wallet.

And this is the kicker, if we trust a savings account to sustain us, we’re not really trusting God, because a savings account is material, and God is Spirit.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have savings accounts. I prefer them, actually, as a matter of wisdom to keep the wolves of lack at bay when extra demands are put upon our understanding of supply. But it is wise to not develop a sense of security based upon a savings account. It will fail us, eventually, for the lesson must be learned that God truly is our source of supply, not money.

I’ve seen this rule for demonstrating sufficiency at work in my own life. When starting my new business years ago, and having very little money at the time, I could not rely upon savings, because I didn’t have any. I learned to radically rely upon divine Mind to meet our human needs. And divine Love came through time and time again. “God is an ever present help in times of trouble.” Our savings grew over the years.

And this is the point I wanted to make, is that when our trust is truly in God, and not in money, whether identified as a savings account, trust fund, or other type of financial instrument, our savings will not diminish as we work for God. They will likely increase over the long term.

Relying upon God for supply is a radical position for the human mind to take, for it often wants to measure supply in a material way. But in reality, the spiritual is the tangible and real, not the material.

God’s ideas, wisdom, inspiration, love and understanding, flowing freely to each of us, are what meet human needs. This supply is an income stream we can count on no matter how much cash we have in the bank, or don’t have.

It’s not a savings account that sustains us over the long run. It’s God. And God is a fully furnished vault of spiritual sustenance to draw upon.

The door to this vault is wide open. Enter therein and gather what you need!