Your Divine Gift and State

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theater of your consciousness, 1 Corinthians 7:7 reveals a truth about the one Life expressing as many gifts. 'I would that all men were even as I myself' is not a command about others; it is a confession of the state you can assume. The 'proper gift of God' is a fixed pattern of consciousness—the gift you are to inhabit—placed there by the I AM. When Paul speaks of one after this manner and another after that, he points to the infinite varieties of the One Life as it clothes itself in different forms. Your neighbor’s gift is not a threat but a mirror showing the same Life in another guise. Your practice is to shift your inner state until you are consciously living your own gift: courage, patience, vocation, or companionship—whatever your inner pattern calls you to express. By revising your sense of self to align with this gift, you weave harmony with Providence and with others who express the same Life differently.