Inner Grace and Endurance

Neville's Inner Vision

From a Neville Goddard cadence, the Thessalonian greeting reveals an inner state. The church is not a building but the I AM conscious of itself as God in Christ. Grace and peace are not foreign gifts; they arise as a felt relation within the mind of God, when awareness rests in its true self. When I say your faith grows exceedingly and your charity abounds, I am naming inner movements: faith is the unwavering assumption that your reality flows from this inner union, and charity is the outward tenderness that springs from that union toward all in your sphere. The persecutions and tribulations are the friction of old images resisted by a new state of being; they are challenges that prove the power of the revived state. Glory in you in the churches of God, indeed: the more you persist in this inner state, the more your outer scene mirrors it, and the community of feeling multiplies in patience and trust. Therefore, remain steadfast in the awareness that the good you seek is already the timeless truth you inhabit.