What has God given you?

God is more merciful than any human mind can  comprehend—

He has given you eternity if you need it in which to work out your own salvation.

Suppose God had made you perfect in the beginning, and avoided for you all this effort and stumbling―

You would have simply been such a thing as God made you—nothing more—no virtue in yourself―no possibility of ever becoming greater than the thing, which you were at first created.

But God endowed you a living soul—endowed you the offspring of his own undying spirit!—endowed you, too, with all the possibilities necessary to develop to a comprehension of himself. 

Made you spiritually in his own image in that he gave you personal freedom and free will, and the inherent power of evolution outwardly from your own individual life-germ.