Inner Ministerial State

Neville's Inner Vision

Your life is not measured by the outward afflictions you endure, but by the inner states you entertain. The passage asks you to approve yourself as a minister of God in patience, in distress, in purity and long-suffering. Yet these "trials" are not contests to be survived; they are movements of consciousness. To be patient, to be pure, to be kind, and to love unfeigned is to dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM, the one infinite consciousness that experiences everything. The Holy Ghost is simply the rising of awareness; love unfeigned is the undistorted flow of that awareness toward all you meet. When you assume that you already stand in that ministerial state, your imagination makes present the conditions that reflect it. The external world shifts to fit your inner stance, because you are not a separate spectator but the I AM perceiving through a human form. Your disciplines—purity, knowledge, longsuffering, kindness—are instruments of self-entrainment, not badges to prove to others. Practice by realizing you already possess these qualities now, and the world must rearrange to match the inner reality you have assumed.