When circumstances call for it, one hires an attorney in order to be represented in an accurate and true light. In our day-to-day experience, we, too, want to be represented in a righteous way. We never want to be falsely represented, whether by gossip or a wrongful interpretation or mere human judgment. But isn’t this what a material view of ourselves does all the time? Age labels (old or young), illness, character faults, and inharmony of any kind are material misrepresentations of who we truly are as God’s offspring.
The textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, defines man as “the compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind” (p. 591). We are each now and always an individual manifestation of the full representation of the divine Mind, God. We can lean on this fact, instead of feeling we need to be, or appear to be, a flawless human.
No challenge has the ability to reverse our true nature as expressions of divine Love.
