Man is God's flawless reflection

REITA H. NAYLOR

Since God is Spirit, man—His reflection—is completely spiritual. Our true nature is nothing less than the nature of God reflected. Christian Science shows us this gloriously perfect nature, expressive of all the qualities that make up God's being. We express God's nature not through physical bodies but through spiritualized consciousness. We recognize divinity in ourselves and others in the form of Godlike qualities of thought, such as integrity, joy, intelligence.

What a marvelous inheritance this is! Yet there are times when we don't feel at all like the reflection of God. Why?

We need to recognize the good that is our divine right and vigorously accept it. Our part is to turn away from the belief in matter-based living and learn more of our spiritual endowments. If we look for our Godlikeness within the limitations and frustrations of physical life, we inevitably find disappointment. But turning to infinite Spirit for our identity leads to freedom, dominion, and satisfaction. Mrs. Eddy explains: "Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man's spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses."^{Science and Health,p. 91;}