Article January 4, 1993 Issue

"Ye are not your own"—you are God's reflection

The peace of prayer helps reveal our true selfhood—God's image.

Gladys C. Girard

When I was a beginning student of Christian Science, there was included in a weekly Bible Lesson (from the Christian Science Quarterly) this wonderful statement of Paul's from I Corinthians: "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" For many weeks the words "ye are not your own" resounded in my thinking continually, and I have never lost sight of this mighty utterance by this very remarkable man.

If we are not our own, who or what are we? Earnest study of the Bible and the works of Mary Baker Eddy reveals increasingly that we are the expression of God, His reflection.

In her book Retrospection and Introspection, Mrs. Eddy states, "The sun sends forth light, but not suns; so God reflects Himself, or Mind, but does not subdivide Mind, or good, into minds, good and evil." One can rightfully conclude from this revealing statement that we do not cause the reflecting but are the reflection itself. God actively causes us to be His expression. We are His manifestation—we might say, the actual activity of God.

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