Inner Zeal for Unity
Colossians 4:13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Paul notes Epaphras’ great zeal for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis; the verse uses zeal to signal a deep inner devotion aimed at communal unity, not mere external action.
Neville's Inner Vision
Colossians 4:13 reveals that zeal is not an external force but a state of consciousness you cultivate within. In Neville’s terms, the one who bears witness to Epaphras’ zeal is your own I AM, the awareness that loves and includes every part of your life. The named places—Laodicea and Hierapolis—stand as inner dispositions, not geographies, representing your attitudes toward neighbors, unity, and community. When you recognize that zeal for others is a vibrational setting of attention, you begin to see that your inner life is already coalescing into one living body. Your mind’s energy, directed with love and focus, ties the differing parts of yourself and your world into harmony. The assertion of zeal is an invitation to revise your sense of separation, replacing it with a continuous, imaginative affection that binds you to all you imagine. As you inhabit this awareness, your outer circumstances naturally echo the inner order, because you are, in truth, the I AM expressing unity through all relationships.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume you are already in loving, unified fellowship with all three inner ‘cities’. Feel the warmth of this unity as your natural state, and silently repeat: I AM unity; I love all parts of my life as one.
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