What is your authentic self?
Instead of a physical image that we see in a mirror, we are actually the reflection of God.
What defines who we are? Do personality, society’s labels, how others view us, and our experiences intertwine to make us who we are and determine our prospects in life? What about our view of ourselves? Is it physical, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual—or some combination of these views?
Christian Science reveals that God—who is Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, Principle—is the creator of the universe, including man. And as the Bible tells us in Genesis 1, we are the image and likeness of God. Instead of a physical image that we see in a mirror, we are actually the reflection of God. And because God is Spirit, our identity is wholly spiritual, constituted of all the qualities of God.
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes of the great Hebrew leader Moses, who initially seemed to define himself by the limitations of his human nature and experience, that he ultimately “illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind” (p. 200).
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