Inner Faith, Hope, Election

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the text invites you to see the Thessalonian experience as your own inner atmosphere. Gratitude is not a distant sentiment but the very light of awareness that says, 'I am.' When Paul thanks God and remembers them in prayer, you are remembering the movements of your own consciousness and giving them form by attention. Your work of faith becomes persistent trust in the possibility of what you have assumed; your labour of love is the bright energy radiating from your inner God-self into the world; your patience of hope is the steady expectancy that what you are now imagining is already in your life in seed form. Knowing, beloved, your election of God, you perceive that you are chosen by the I AM, not by circumstance. The outer events reflect your inner alignment; thus your awareness shifts, and what you prayed for begins to appear as your present experience.