Inner Repentance Pathway

Neville's Inner Vision

Godly sorrow is not sorrow for sorrow's sake, but the mind's awakening to its own divine state. It is the I AM turning toward itself, seeing that the old self has believed a lie, and choosing to stop feeding it. In this turning, the inner movements you named—carefulness, clearing of yourselves, indignation, fear, vehement desire, zeal, revenge—are not outward judgments but signals of inner alignment. You no longer consent to the old image; you revise it by assuming the new state: you are already clear, you are already free, you are already in salvation. This is not regret that fades with time; it is a lasting conversion of consciousness, the 'not to be repented of' kind, because it changes the ground of your experience. Through godly sorrow, you draw toward a life that reflects your true I AM—facts of health, order, and integrity. The world’s sorrow dies in its own grasping; the godly sorrow yields life, a renewal of mind that restores you to the original image of God within.