As a rule we think of self-satisfaction as an undesirable, unattractive human quality—detached, complacent; but there is a real self-satisfaction that is most commendable, a satisfaction that is divinely perfect and purely legitimate. It is that self-satisfaction that comes to us by degrees in exact proportion as we waken to our true spiritual selfhood, our divinely reflected individuality, man in God's image and likeness, as the Scriptures describe him. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him," we read in Genesis (1:27).
Through the enlightened teachings of Christian Science we learn that Godlikeness, the expression and reflection of deific qualities, alone identifies man, his true nature, the selfhood in which he finds and treasures true satisfaction.
Christian Scientists are constantly faced with loving but exacting challenges, never more so than today. These challenges demand the expression of the one selfhood that satisfies not only the individual who demonstrates it, but all those discerning ones with whom he comes in contact. Take, for instance, the world's present need for the understanding and proof of the power of divine energy; in other words, the activity of the healing Christ, which, to the extent that he reflects it, empowers the individual to overcome material forces: the fears, the ills, the defeats with which human will wouldafflict mankind.
