If someone were to ask "Who are you?" how would you identify yourself? As a man or a woman with such and such a name? Someone belonging to this or that age-group? A resident of some city or nation? A member of a particular family with a specific ethnic heritage? Regardless of your response, would you also inwardly affirm with unwavering conviction, "I am the perfect child of God"?
It's often a challenge to hold to the spiritual fact that we are perfect children of the one, perfect God, to silence suggestions of inferiority, to cast off the worries that weigh us down, to conquer the sin and disease that claim jurisdiction over us. Yet, this is exactly what we must do in following Christ Jesus. Jesus continuously identified himself in terms of his spiritual origin, God, and commanded his followers, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matt. 5:48 The Science of Christ shows us how to be obedient to this command through a spiritual understanding of man's relation to God.
Jesus was forever conscious of his spiritual identity. He represented Christ—the perfect idea of divine sonship. Understanding his oneness with God enabled him to heal those in need, of both sin and disease, and to raise the dead. When asked by his countrymen and women if, indeed, he was the promised Messiah, he pointed to his healing works as proof of his identity.
