Chapter 11 - Lesson Eleven - Laying Up Treasures

AFTER the multitude had been fed by the increase of the
loaves and fishes, Jesus commanded that they gather up the
fragments so that nothing might be lost. "And they all ate,
and were filled: and they took up that which remained over
of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full." Any form of
waste is a violation of the divine law of conservation.
Everywhere in nature there is evidence of stored-up energy
substance, ready for use when needed.

This reserve force is not material but spiritual. It is
ready to be called into expression to meet any need. But
when it is not put to use or called into expression, there
is a manifestation of inharmony or lack either in the body
of man or in its outer supply. It is in his wrong
conception of this spiritual force that man makes the
mistake of falling into the habit of hoarding instead of
conserving. He tries to gather things together in the
external in a vain effort to avert an imagined shortage in
the future and he counts himself rich by the amount of his
material possessions.