Inner Cross Confidence Galatians

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the 'Lord' here not as a distant judge but as your own I AM, the living awareness you awaken in your chest. The phrase 'through the Lord' signals that all certainty comes from within, not from outward teachers or outward circumcision of the flesh. The 'troublers' are the restless voices of doubt in your mind, the habit of judging yourself by rules rather than by your inner state. When Paul says the offence of the cross ceases if he preached otherwise, he is pointing to the moment you stop letting law-bound thinking trip you up and you realize the cross is the mercy of the self you already are. If I still preached circumcision, I would be free to suffer persecution—an inner resistance to truth—yet the real victory is when the mind declares, 'I am the Christ within, and the world is my imagination.' Those who trouble you are simply your old self trying to cling to a false identity; bless them with the realization they too are God in disguise, and with that, you dissolve their noise inside.