Inner Battle: Flee and Fight Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine yourself as the man of God not as a distant figure, but as the I AM within you—the awareness that never falters. The command to flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness becomes a decision of attention: turn from the noise of symptoms and align with the state you intend to inhabit. Faith, in Neville's terms, is the act of dwelling in the inner conviction that life is already eternal, that you are blessed and complete in your present moment. When he says fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, he asks you to discipline your inner conversation until your sense of self matches the desired outcome. You are called, you have professed a good profession before many witnesses—so the witnesses are within, your inner gallery of reinforced images. By choosing a new assumption and feeling it real, by revising the handfuls of fear and doubt, you shift the inner atmosphere. The outer world follows the daylight of your inner state.