Money Motive in Acts 24:26

Neville's Inner Vision

Acts 24:26 becomes not a tale about a ruler and a bribe, but a mirror of your own states. The governor's hope that money would loose Paul is the living image of a belief that value, approval, and release come through external payment. The inner man, not the man in the room, is bargaining with a counterfeit god called money, seeking to maneuver the body of consciousness into freedom by paying a debt that one imagines binds it. When you notice yourself saying, 'If I only had more, I could be free,' you are performing the same scene. The 'oftener' summoned is the persistence of a habit of mind; the commune with Paul is your inner conversation with truth. When you refuse the bribe, you refuse to let a condition define your sense of freedom. Paul represents the eternal, indomitable I AM within you, whose release cannot be bought. The moment you stop negotiating with that false god, you 'loose' yourself from limitation, not by money, but by recognizing that you are already free here and now, as consciousness awakening to itself.