Light of Faith, Inner Comfort

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner listener, the verse is a map of consciousness. Timotheus brings good tidings of your faith and charity, not as distant events but as states you are cultivating within. Faith and love are inner dispositions you can hold as you would hold a close friend in your mind; their remembrance is the mind’s memory of your divine alignment. Your desire to see the speakers again is the inner pull toward reunion with the divine order. When Paul says we were comforted by your faith in affliction, he is telling you that the moment you maintain faith, fear loses its grip and life takes on the tone of the I AM. The phrase For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord, means life itself follows from the fidelity of your inner stand. The Lord is not an external ruler but the I AM within; stand fast there and your world becomes a demonstration of that reality. Practice by assuming you are already held in God, and let the feeling of that security fill your chest until it becomes your ordinary mood.