In the matter of the temporal prosperity
that results from worldly methods, it is considered a good principle to gauge
one’s spending by one’s income; and that is good sense when one’s prosperity is
on a material basis.
But the spiritual law is stated thus:
“With what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured unto you.” “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” In
other words, learn to spend—not recklessly or in a meaningless way, but with
the wisdom of one who is being educated to disseminate riches like seed, thus
breaking down fear and sense of limitation and cultivating faith and
consciousness of all-capacity in himself.
To illustrate, a person may start out to
buy a garment for twenty dollars, but he finds one just as suitable for
twenty-five dollars. Under the old way of thinking the extra cost would rule
out that garment even though the money might lie in the purse.
If then because of trust in the divine
bounty he does pay the extra amount, the purchaser will not “lack” the five dollars, but on the
contrary will enter into a new current of receptivity and, if alert, will be
able to see the unexpected increase when it comes, in obedience to the great
law.
When one intends to make a gift of money
in a certain amount and then mentally lessens it, he is lessening his own
receiving capacity. A homely illustration of this law is the good milk cow that
keeps up her capacity to receive as long as what she has to give is all taken
from her; but if her milker in a foolish moment should think to save her by not
stripping her of her milk, she would give him less the next time, even though
he milked her dry.
Practice distributing freely because of
trust in your unlimited source of supply.
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Annie
Rix Militz
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