Inner Girdle of Will

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul’s act in Acts 21:11-14 becomes a drama of consciousness. The girdle is a symbol of the belief you carry about control—the idea that your future is determined by circumstances rather than by your inward state. The Holy Ghost speaks through the scene to announce that the external world will mirror the state you hold about yourself: the one who owns this girdle will be bound, and handed over to Gentiles. The crowd's tears and pleas are the pull of fear, the old habit of supplication. Paul answers from the I AM within, not out of bravado but from a settled inner fact: I am ready not only to be bound, but to die for the name of the Lord if that is the price of remaining faithful to my true purpose. He does not resist the outer prediction; he simply refuses to let it overthrow his inner decision. When they desist, they speak the law of inner alignment: the will of the Lord be done. The events take their form from the state you hold, not from random chance. You can innerly choose to stand firm in your divine intention, regardless of appearances.