Christ, the spiritual idea of sonship, awakens one to realize that he has a spiritual destiny to fulfill. He fulfills this destiny by renouncing mortality as unreal and by accepting Spirit as the reality of being. Divine Science enables one to do this—to accept a selfhood derived from Spirit, not matter.
The moment we respond to the touch of the Christ a radical change begins to take place in our lives. We learn to look to Spirit rather than to matter as the source of all that constitutes our being. Qualities such as ability, strength, endurance, health, which the world erroneously attributes to matter, are understood to be spiritual in nature.
Acknowledging that in Science every quality and capacity of our being is derived from God, we recognize that in reality we are fulfilling our spiritual destiny as the children of God at this very moment. We pray (Matt. 6:9), "Our Father which art in heaven" with new meaning. This does not mean that God is the source of what appears to be fleshly existence—far from it. Acknowledging God, Spirit, as our Father, we rise to the point where we see that our true selfhood is spiritual. While still appearing to be physical, we are, through the transforming power of Truth and Love, able to demonstrate a selfhood higher than that which the world has claimed to bestow upon us and to which it would hold us in bondage.
