Inner Discipline of 1 Timothy 5:11-13

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the 'younger widows' are states of consciousness prone to be swayed by outward desires for companionship and status. When that state begins to wax wanton against Christ, the mind chooses external attachments over the I AM within. 'Having damnation' is a mental judgment you place on yourself for casting off your first faith—the inner recognition of unity with God. The idle wandering and busybody energy spring from wandering attention and the habit of repeating thoughts that do not serve truth. The cure is to hold to the first faith as a living, present reality: see yourself as the I AM, complete and unchanging. Redirect your imagination back to that inner truth, discipline your thoughts, and let outward scenes yield to the authority of your inner state. When you presume and dwell in that unity, what once seemed 'outside' harmonizes with your inner vision.