Inner Fellow Workers in Colossians

Neville's Inner Vision

Aristarchus, Marcus, and Justus are not distant men but inner dispositions and states of consciousness that stand ready in your mind. The phrase fellow prisoners reveals that the burdens you feel in the sense of limitation are shared; the presence of those inner allies lightens the load because you know you are not alone in the quest. The kingdom of God, then, is not a distant realm but the invariant awareness that remains when attention rests in I AM. When Paul says these are my fellow workers unto the kingdom, he names the steady energies that cooperate with your most true nature to establish reality from within. Their being a comfort to me is the felt sense of companionship, trust, and support that steadies you amid change. To 'receive them' is to permit them to enter your field of awareness now, to revise your sense of separation into union. Practice in imagination: call those inner workers by name, invite their presence, and feel their support as a quiet assurance that the kingdom is already here in your awareness.