Edifying Inner Communion

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a man or woman inside your own mind, the letter becomes a map of your inner weather. When Paul says we do all things for your edifying, hear it as: I am choosing to edify my life now, to reframe every impression as nourishment for unity. The fear that when I come I shall find you not as I would, and that I shall be found as you would not, is the storm of thoughts you permit to rule your inner air—debates, envy, wrath, strife, whispers, tumults. These are not external people but states of consciousness you have empowered by attention. The cure is to maintain the state of edification, to imagine harmony as the steadiness of your awareness. If you suspect division, revise: see the whole assembly in your mind as already united, already edified by love. Speak and act from that inner image, and your outer experience begins to reflect it. The act of speaking before God in Christ is simply the acknowledgment that your I AM—your eternal awareness—governs all you encounter. When you align with that edifying, loving state, you will find the unity you seek is your true nature.