Not Wrath, But Salvation

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the apostle is not warning you of doom, but inviting you into the victorious assumption that you are already saved by the Christ within. 'Not appointed to wrath' declares your true nature as awareness that never misses its own harmony; the idea of wrath is a misperception born of fear, not of being. 'But to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ' becomes: you obtain salvation by identifying with the Jesus within—the Christ in you—who died to your old sense of separation. When you say 'whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him,' you are not speaking of external events, but of states of consciousness. Wakefulness is alert faith; sleep is dreamlike belief in lack. Yet in either case, you live in God’s inner union, because the life of Jesus—the Christ consciousness—dwells in you. Your daily experience shifts to reflect that oneness: your sensations, your choices, your clarity all carry the color of salvation here and now. The cross points inward to the real you: a birth into life that never ceases, a oneness with the Lord that is always present.