Inner Hearing of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scene, the outer hearing is really an inner diagnosis. Paul’s rhetoric of faith in Christ becomes a flash of awareness—the I AM observing itself, calling forth righteousness, temperance, and the reckoning to come. Felix trembles because the truth presses upon his present state of consciousness, exposing a belief that he can postpone the alignment required by a new inward order. The 'convenient season' is the mind’s trick of postponement, the habit of waiting for a better time to alter one’s inner life. Neville would say: nothing stands outside your own I AM; the kingdom is the state you assume now. To hear is to remember who you are, and to judge is to acknowledge the consequences your inner movements invite. The faith in Christ is the acceptance that the Christ within you governs your actions, not the fear of change. Let your attention rest in the conviction that you already are, and will act in righteousness and temperance, in harmony with the judgment that follows from that knowing.