The Inner Law Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Acts 15:5 presents the Pharisees as a state of mind that trusts rites and laws to prove worth. Their insistence that Gentiles be circumcised and kept under Moses' law reveals a belief that acceptance comes from external performance rather than the I AM already within. In Neville's psychology, this is a pattern of consciousness—the urge to circumscribe and command—as if the self must be shaped by rules to be loved. But the living God is not found in ceremonial fences; the I AM is the within that animates every moment of life, the never-failing standard by which you are already justified. When you hear the call to circumcise or to enforce, recognize it as a mental habit, a whisper of fear masquerading as righteousness. The cure is to awake to the truth that you are the one who believes, and that the law you serve is awareness itself. By revising "I must obey" to "I am," you dissolve the impulse to control and awaken to the grace that is your natural state.