We’re in the age of de-leveraging, many economists have stated in recent months. This is true for countries and populations deep in debt, anyway, they argue.
For decades, citizens, corporations, business and governments have collectively leveraged far too much debt. Now the price is being paid as debtors work hard to get out of that onerous burden and regain solvency. “The piper must be paid,” the old saying goes.
Many economists expect this de-leveraging to take up to ten years, holding unemployment high, stalling the stock market, and further depressing house prices before a full-fledged recovery can be hailed.
“Come out and be separate,” Paul commanded his followers. This rule for demonstrating immunity to common suffering at large certainly applies to economic predictions. De-leveraging may be an economic need today, but it doesn’t mean we have to suffer while it occurs. Finding balance, proving discipline, learning to value the spiritual over the material, relying more heavily upon spiritual assets and resources for success and less on debt, are not bad developments. They are healthy results that bring increased joy, freedom and wealth to those who demonstrate them.
Because the fears surrounding the effects of de-leveraging are so great, it’s wise to protect one’s own understanding of supply from them.
God is our source of supply! It doesn’t matter how much debt needs to be paid, God’s provision of supply is always much greater.
The abundance of divine supply far exceeds any size of debt. It doesn’t matter if one dollar is owed or one million dollars, supply from God is absolute. It doesn’t come in partial quantities or piecemeal amounts. It just is. There isn’t a partial supply from God, a little supply from God, or a bit of supply from God. There is just supply from God—and it’s always the right amount—enough.
God’s law of enough supplies all our needs regardless of how much debt needs to be paid in our own business, by the government or by other companies in our sphere of activity.
Attuned to God’s infinite supply, the age of de-leveraging does not need to be an age of lack. God’s supply is the same in the next decade as in any other—always enough. What we understand to be true spiritually negates any false belief of mortal mind to the contrary that would deny that truth.
So, don’t allow your thinking to accept the aggressive suggestion of a “slow decade.” See it as God’s decade—a time of great spiritual growth, reward and blessing where all needs are met ahead of time, and there is no lack to be seen or feared.
Thank you.
Thank you Evan for reminding us of this fact. In my study of Christian Science I have read and collected a number of valuable insights to help me financially over the years. I look at Jesus’ example of his demonstration of the ‘Loaves and fishes’ to feed the 5,000 men plus women and children, that demonstration illustrated a fundamental fact: that supply is omnipresent in its fullness and therefore no shortage can occur. As the bread and fish were portioned out they instantaneously filled in to be portioned out again until all were fed. Not only was everyone fed but there were leftovers. 12 baskets full! I’ve always seen that detail as a poetic reference to the 12 tribes of the Children of Israel. Everyone’s need being met, no one left out with enough left over for tomorrow! That’s how complete the demonstration was. Mrs. Eddy also speaks of “the Science that operates unspent”. Meaning, not used up or exhausted, but operates functionally without being dissipated. When I cherish this insight I find I have no fear to use what is at hand because I expect it to be replenished due to this fact of supply being omnipresent in its fullness now. In my most extreme moments, and there have been many, every need has been met, sometimes creatively. But the fundamental fact has never changed, that Spirit being the only true substance, and being omnipresent in its fullness, its infinite nature, is at hand to meet every human need. Cherishing this divine Principle in prayer will externalize itself in terms appropriate to the situation. Jesus fed 5,000 – we pay our bills. It’s all the same principle in action. It illustrates “the Science that operates unspent.”
Yes, Thank you Evan, and you Leah!
Very good and helpful insights and much appreciated.
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