Inner Baptism and Rise (Colossians 2:12)

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the text does not speak of a distant event, but of your inner state. Being buried with Him is the decision to lay aside the old self in imagination; rising with Him is the felt reality of your new consciousness already alive in you. The operation of God is the continuous activity of your own I AM within, a power you possess, not a force outside you. When you silently affirm I am buried to the old self and I am risen now, you are not asking God to do something new, you are consenting to a transformation that has already occurred in your consciousness. Faith here is trust in what your inner I AM has already accomplished, not belief in a future outcome. As you dwell in that risen state, every perception, sensation, and circumstance will reflect the truth you hold, because reality follows the inner state. The resurrection is not past tense but present tense being, a daily revival of your true self by divine operation inside your own being.