Inner Growth of Faith and Love

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the writer’s praise is not praise of a distant object but the awakening of consciousness itself. When Paul says your faith grows exceedingly and that love abounds toward one another, he is naming a transformation of inner states. In the Neville way, the words point to what you are becoming in consciousness: a steady, unwavering awareness that no outer pressure can crush. The persecutions and tribulations you endure are not happenings to you but movements within your own inner room of awareness. As you entertain the quiet conviction that God—your I AM—dwells as the actor behind every thought, patience arises as the natural stance of your awareness; faith is the living trust that uses every experienced trial to refine its grip on reality. Your gratitude is simply the recognition that your inner life has grown into a more abundant expression of brotherly love. The church, the gathering, becomes the portrait of your inner community, a luminous chorus testifying that you have learned to honor the Self in all beings. So you glory in yourself by glorying in others.