Charity's Quiet Endurance
1 Corinthians 13:8-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Corinthians 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage contrasts eternal charity with fading gifts, saying we know and prophesy in part, and that the perfect state will make the partial obsolete; faith, hope, and especially love endure, with love being the greatest.
Neville's Inner Vision
Imagine the living God not as an distant power but as the I AM within you, a steady light that never faileth. The gifts—prophecy, tongues, knowledge—are only partial visions that vanish as your consciousness widens. When you encounter 'that which is perfect is come,' you are invited to recognize your own perfect state as present now, not somewhere ahead. In the quiet of imagination, release the impulse to chase results and rest in the mature awareness that you are known as you know. So revise your inner atmosphere: make charity your native air, feel it as your true worth, harmony, and unity. As you dwell in that state, the glass grows clear and you face your authentic self. Faith and hope express this love, not as distant rewards but as expressions of the inner light. Charity remains; through loving, you uncover the eternal you—the I AM—and the outer gifts fall into place as reflections of that single illumination.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume you are charity now—feel it in your heart for a full minute, then observe how this inner state colors any situation you encounter, reshaping perception into unity.
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