The Inner Exercise Of Godliness

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the verse as a map of inner discipline. The profane fables are not distant myths but the ceaseless chatter of the mind that keeps you identified with form. To exercise thyself unto godliness is to train the mind to dwell in the I AM, to choose again and again the feeling of the eternal self rather than the body's craving. God is not somewhere far off; God is the awareness that witnesses every image, every urge, every impulse. Bodily exercise may profit the body, yet its returns are limited; the living, breathing truth that endures is godliness—an inner alignment that makes all things profitable, both for this life and the life to come because it anchors you in the consciousness that creates. When you undertake this inward training, you are not escaping the world but reorganizing your experience from within. The present moment becomes the seed of eternity, as you revise your thoughts to affirm I AM, to feel the life of godliness as your own now, not as a distant promise. Imagination, rightly used, is the instrument that translates that inner reality into outward form.