The Inner Fight for Eternal Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Your text is not asking Timothy to defeat outward enemies but to awaken to the truth of his own I AM. The 'fight' is the imaginative discipline by which you refuse to accept lack and limitation as final. To 'lay hold on eternal life' is to dwell in the state that life is spacious, timeless, and yours here and now. Eternal life is not future currency but the living consciousness you wear as your inner garment. When it says he has called you, and that you have professed a good profession before many witnesses, the inner meaning is that your own mind bears witness to your true status— the quiet I AM recognizing and confirming it under every appearance. The 'God, who quickeneth all things' is the animating breath of awareness that gives life to every circumstance; before Christ Jesus witnessing a good confession means you renew your allegiance to truth in the face of opposition, by repeating and feeling the confession of your inner self. So the practice is to align your feeling with the fact that you are eternally alive, and to let your outward life echo that inner certainty.