Joy in Trial: Inner Riches

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the 'great trial of affliction' is not a war in the outer world but a condition of mind. The Corinthians did not conquer scarcity by collecting coins; they rose in the only currency that endures—the joy of consciousness that is rich with the I AM. Their deep poverty did not curtail their power to give; it became the soil in which liberality grew because abundance is the nature of awareness when identified with God rather than with circumstance. When the inner state is joyful, it multiplies what you have by confirming your reality as already complete. Therefore, the 'riches of their liberality' are the fruits of imagination, not of situation. If you refuse to be ruled by appearances and choose to feel as though you already possess, your lack is transformed into generous action. The Spirit does not measure by pounds but by the vitality of inner feeling. So you, too, may awaken this generosity by assuming a state of fullness and acting from that assumption.