No matter what the demand, each individual has something of substance that can multiply. And when we realize that this substance is an idea, we don’t need to be searching around for material objects we might have in our possession—we can listen for the ideas that will lead to a recognition of what we already have to meet the demand.
Understanding that there is a divine intelligence, or Mind, that is conscious of all it creates is the starting point of expanded awareness.
The “seed within itself” is another affirmation that God provides within each person what is needful and helpful to fulfillment and satisfaction. Looking within the depths of this divine Mind, we will find Mind revealing to us what we already have.
Another interesting note about that story in the Bible: the production of the oil was only limited by the number of containers available to hold it. Perhaps that becomes an object lesson in this idea of supply coming from within—always provide the containers that allow for continual multiplication of good.
For me, those “containers” are best seen as the states of thought that promote good: gratitude, expectancy, unselfishness, self-immolation. From this perspective, one can see that the only limitation to Mind’s infinite supply would be a shortage of such containers, a poverty of thinking.
The Bible constantly assures us that God’s goodness continually follows us, seeks us out, if we are determined to live “in the house,” the consciousness, “of the Lord for ever.”
There are no greater riches than those already included in our being—our conscious awareness of the good God is providing
