As children of God, we each express the divine character. Divine means from or like God. Character means the qualities or nature distinctive to an individual. Each one of us has a beloved and cherished spiritual identity that uniquely reflects God’s character.
This is to be increasingly brought out in our lives. Mary Baker Eddy explains in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness” (p. 4).
Since God is our Father-Mother, we are born of God, originate in God, and have always lived and eternally will live in God. God is our divine Parent and we are His image and likeness, as the first chapter of Genesis records. And this never changes. But it’s natural that, as we grow spiritually, we awaken more to what is already real and true. We awaken to realize what it means to reflect the divine character.
