IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BIBLE LESSON November 9, 2009 Issue

CARRY YOUR IMMORTAL ID

CHRISTA KREUTZ

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ALTHOUGH WE all carry some form of ID, it's not a complete description of who we really are. This week's Christian Science Bible Lesson on "Mortals and Immortals" gives a full explanation of identity. It provides answers to questions about identity theft, distortion, loss. One might describe it as a Lesson about letting go of false or useless models, and claiming our true identity as children of God—responding to Jesus' revelation that we are not mortals, trapped in physical bodies and circumstances, but immortals—with our life and being derived from Spirit.

The Responsive Reading from a letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthian church talks about light as a metaphor for what we know about God and ourselves. It stood out to me that the Christ—which later in the Lesson is described as "the divine image, idea ..." that "ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God"—is that light (Science and Health, p. 333, citation 26). And it is through this Christ light that we understand our true identity. All other models fall miserably short.