Faith Under Inner Temptation

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse the writer speaks not of distance but of your own inner weather. When I could not forbear, I sent to know your faith—this is the moment you inquire of your own consciousness, “What is the state I am actually living from?” The tempter is the whisper of doubt, the memory of lack, the tendency to stray from the image you have chosen. Your labour, the constant practice of imagining and feeling the wish fulfilled, is not idle; it becomes vain only when faith is not maintained. To preserve it, you must steady yourself in the conviction that the I AM, your inner ruler, already knows the outcome as true now. Endurance arises not from waiting for outward proofs, but from dwelling in the inner sense of completion. If you fear failure, you are entertaining another state; refuse that thought. Return to your chosen state, re-confirm it, and let your present feeling align with the imagined result. In this way, you honor truth and faithfulness, turning every moment into the soil where your dream is already born.