Inner Comfort Through Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this verse is not about distant people, but about states of consciousness. The 'brethren' and their 'faith' are not others out there but the faith you hold in your own inner world that you project into your days. When affliction presses, you are comforted not by outer circumstances but by the vibration of faith you awaken within. Your awareness—God, the I AM—recognizes that every scene is a reflection of your interior state. When you perceive others' faith, you are being reminded of the living assurance in your own I AM. They stood in the fire of trial, and your awareness responds with calm, because faith is a motion of consciousness that displaces fear. Thus, distress becomes a signal to return to the statement, 'I am faith; I am comfort.' The external scenes do not cause the comfort; they awaken it from within. Practice this: assume that your inner faith in others taps into your own enduring faith, and revise any distress by the feeling of being steadied. Let your imagination renew the scene until it feels real and unchanged by circumstance.