Rest in the Inner Revelation

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, this is no outside judgment but a shift in your own consciousness. The troubled state is a memory you are willing to drop; rest comes when you acknowledge the Lord Jesus within—the I AM who sees through every moment. The ‘revelation from heaven with his mighty angels’ is the inner awakening of your better thoughts and noble faculties—faith, courage, discernment—standing ready to guide you. The flaming fire is not vengeance poured on you from beyond; it is the burning away of ignorance by light. It exposes that you never knew God in separation, and it dissolves the old tale that you are at the mercy of appearances. The verse about those who know not God and do not obey the gospel points to the inner choice: to disregard the gospel is to ignore your own divine reality. Obedience, in Neville’s sense, is simply yielding to the truth you already know within and acting from that sense of unity. When you do, rest becomes your natural state and the world rearranges in harmony with your inner state.