Stand Fast Amid Afflictions

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville reading, this line is a mirror held up to your inner life. It does not deny outer pain, yet it makes clear that the true movement is within your own state of consciousness. When you know, as the writer says, that we are appointed to these afflictions, you are asked to align with the inner decree of your I AM. The affliction appearing in your world is permitted by your awareness to become a teacher, testing whether your faith remains steady or is toppled by appearances. So you inwardly assume a different order: you imagine yourself already standing firm, unshaken, having been chosen for this very moment to grow in trust. Do not argue with what seems real; revise it by the certainty that your life is guided by an intelligent presence that appointed this trial to refine your soul. When you dwell in the feeling of being anchored, the mind returns to its natural peace and the outward conditions begin to yield to your inner conviction. Thus, the 'appointed thereunto' becomes your invitation to mastery, not a sentence of suffering.