Inner Harvest of Sowing

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse the figure of sowing and harvest is the language of consciousness. The apostle tells you that spiritual seed—truths planted within another’s mind—does not depend on a tangible thank-you to be valid in the realm of your experience. 'If we have sown unto you spiritual things,' he writes, 'is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?' The state you call 'power over you' is not a coercive worldly power but an inner leverage, a willingness to be sustained by the one Life, by the I AM within. He says he has not used this power, not to burden the hearers, lest the gospel be hindered. This is a reminder: your spiritual work is not measured by external compensation but by the integrity of your inner state. When you operate from inner abundance, no external lack can separate you from your supply. The harvest follows the sowing in your imagination; you need not press for payment or permission—your consciousness is the currency, and the world responds to the conviction that you are supported by the divine stream within you.