The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1933
divine or spiritual healing obtained? Is it by looking to or trusting in external efforts or appliances? Surely not; but rather by ceasing entirely from the without, turning our thoughts and our faith to the Father in us, and letting His life flow freely in and through us.
How then, are we to get our abundant supply—aye, even more than we can ask or think (for God gives not according to our need, but “according to His riches are told)? “Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace; thereby shall good come unto thee; saith our God. Cease to outside sources; turn within. “If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. Yes, the Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. Be still and know that God—even the indwelling God, the Father in us—is our supply.
It is not enough to believe simply that God is our Supplier—the One who shall by His omnipotent power influence the mind of some one possessing an abundance to divide with us. This is limitation. God’s being our health means far more than God’s being our Healer. God as our supply is infinitely more than God as our Supplier.
When Elisha multiplied the widow’s oil, he did not, recognizing God simply as the Supplier, ask and then for answer receive a few barrels of oil from someone overrich in that commodity, someone in whose heart the Spirit of God was working. That would have been a good but a very limited way; for had that demand continued, in time not only the village but the whole country would have been destitute of oil.
Elisha understood the Divine Law of working, and put himself into harmony with it; then God Himself, the substance of all things, became manifest as the unlimited supply—supply which could easily have flowed until this time had there been need and vessels enough.
Jesus’ increase of the loaves and fishes did not come from the village in response to some silent word spoken by Him to a person having a quantity. He never recognized that He had any right to seek the surplus possessions of another, ever though He was going to use them to benefit others. In order to feed the multitude, He did not reach out after that which belonged to any man, or even that which was already in manifestation. The
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