Inner Light Awakens: Ephesians 5

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, these verses invite you to examine the inner weather of consciousness rather than other people. 'Let no man deceive you with vain words' becomes a discipline of attention: refuse any thought that flatters fear, lack, or separation, for such thoughts feed a state the author calls disobedience. The 'wrath of God' is not punishment from above, but the natural ripple in your own mind when you cling to a lower state. Be not ye therefore partakers with them — do not consent to scenes imagined as real that would rob you of your divine sense. You were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. See the change as already accomplished in your consciousness; the fruit of the Spirit—goodness, righteousness, truth—arises as you cease clinging to what you do not wish to be and start testing every impression against divine reality. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord becomes your daily practice: you judge thoughts by their alignment with the truth you already embody. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them by the certainty that you are the light now.