God's outflow and your income

Financial problems are just as subject to the spiritual laws of healing that Jesus observed as are our physical needs.

from the March 27, 2007 edition

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My husband owned a small business. We had little savings, and since he was self-employed, there was no company retirement plan. At one time there was a piece of equipment he needed to buy, but he felt that he shouldn't spend the money.

One day he was looking at this equipment, and some words from Mrs. Eddy came to thought: "God is the lawmaker, but He is not the author of barbarous codes" (Science and Health, p. 381).

My husband said he saw "barbarous codes" as cruel laws of limitation. And what he was learning of God's nature excluded the possibility of there being a law of God that would limit good in our lives and cause human suffering. For him, this enlarged sense of what law means – that God is the lawmaker and that His laws do not involve cruelty in their execution – was momentous and freeing. He bought the equipment right then. And from then on, he felt assured that there were no codes of cruelty in the laws God made.

Those solid truths – that God is the lawmaker, and that the laws of spiritual existence include no "barbarous codes" – also carried my husband through a comfortable retirement. And we all have the right to expect that "morrow" of which Jesus spoke to be bright indeed, because our income from divine Love's outpouring flows "in every hour."

Adapted from the Christian Science Sentinel.

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