Godliness Meets Persecution

Neville's Inner Vision

All that the text speaks of persecution is but a sign of your inner weather. Godliness is not a future moral attainment, but the present awareness you entertain. When you say 'I am,' you step into the state of the I AM in Christ Jesus, and the world cannot help but reflect that state. Persecution arises not from outside facts but from the clashing movements of consciousness: the resistance of fear, the pull of old identities, and the self-justifying voices of pride. The 'evil men and seducers' are counterfeit states that wax worse as you linger in a belief of separation; they deceive and are deceived only as long as you identify with fear's voice. In truth, the outer world is your faithful mirror, rearranging itself to match the inner assumption you hold about yourself. If you persist in the consciousness of holiness, you will notice that the movement of persecution subsides because you have shifted the inner law. Remember: imagination creates reality; to change the outer, revise the inner scene.