The Foolish Boast Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Do you hear Paul offering to be read as a fool, not to gain their applause but to strip away the ego’s disguise? He steps into the language of fools on purpose to awaken the inner observer—the I AM that remains when appearances rise and fall. Where the crowd glories in the flesh, he glories in a different currency—the state of consciousness you wear as your real self. When he says, I will glory also, in that seeming foolishness, he invites you to examine what you value: bondage, devourment, exaltation, or beating as signs of control, and to see them as inner movements testing your identity. The victory is not in resisting others but in renouncing identification with the image they praise. The I AM within is the sole reality; through that awareness you can endure what would appear as injury and even let it refine you. Your power is the quiet certainty that you are the consciousness behind every event, not the events themselves. Thus the bold man of the flesh becomes the fearless soul who trusts the inner vision of God within.