Grace Beyond Law Inner Alignment

Neville's Inner Vision

To 'not frustrate the grace of God' is to refuse the old habit of proving yourself by laws and rituals. The text tells us: if righteousness came by law, then Christ died in vain; in other words, your present sense of worth cannot be earned by rules. The Christ spoken of is not a distant historical figure, but the inner realization of God as I AM. When you attempt to justify yourself by performance, you declare that grace is not enough; you cancel the very gift of God. But grace is the atmosphere of your true being, the life that animates every moment when you stop measuring yourself by deeds and begin measuring yourself by consciousness. Your inner state is the place where you either frustrate or fulfill the grace. If you acknowledge that God already approves of you in the I AM, you release fear, guilt, and striving. The more you dwell in that awareness, the more the sense of righteousness becomes your daily reality, and the external rules lose their sting.