Inner Judgment Seat

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 18:17 speaks of Sosthenes, the synagogue leader, being beaten before the judgment seat, while Gallio cared for none of these things. In Neville’s lens, the theater is the mind: the Greeks are the clamor of opposing beliefs, pressing at the moment you decide what events mean; the judgment seat is the place in consciousness where meaning is assigned. When outer events seem to strike, you are tempted to adopt the crowd’s verdict as your reality. Yet Gallio’s detachment signals a higher law: the I AM within you remains unmoved by outward judgments. The true power is your capacity to reinterpret, to turn apparent conflict into evidence of an inner state that cannot be touched by appearances. If you accept that the only reality is your inner awareness, you will not be defined by rumor, verdict, or blow. The life you experience follows from your inner turning of belief. The Infinite, not the crowd, is the source of your security; God is awareness, and imagination is the instrument by which you awaken to that reality.