Belief, Love, and The I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Take John’s words as a working impression for your consciousness: belief is not a vote you cast outward, but an inner alignment with the I AM, a state in which you accept Jesus as the Christ within you. To be born of God is to awaken as the living affirmation of God’s birthright in your own mind. When you love the begotten, you are loving the image of God you recognize in every brother and sister—because you love the One who begat them in the first place, the I AM that you are aware of. The way we know this love is by keeping the commandments, but remember the commandments are internal laws of harmonized living—imaged and maintained by you, not imposed from without. Your loving action toward others is the sign that your inner state is true; it proves you are not separate from God or from your fellowman. The practical discipline is to dwell in the assumption that you are this Christ-born being, and to feel the reality of that unity until it manifests as acts of love and obedience in your daily experience. Imagination creates reality, and love is its most faithful proof.