Inner Power and Self-Examination

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the crucifixion of the old self as your misidentification dissolving before your true I AM. Though the world’s circumstance seems to display weakness, the fact remains: you live by the power of God within you. And we are 'weak in him' only in the sense of ego-centered ideas; yet we shall live with him by the power of God toward you—the power that moves your world when you assent to it. The exhortation 'examine yourselves' is an invitation to monitor your state of consciousness: Am I in the faith that Christ is in me? Faith, in Neville's sense, is not belief in something distant but the inner conviction that your consciousness is Christ-present. Do not fear being deemed reprobate; the only 'reprobate' is the one who denies the truth by habit. So revise your sense of yourself until you acknowledge the inner Christ as your immediate identity. When you assume that you already possess this power, imagination becomes reality and your life is rearranged by God’s living energy.