Inner Bargain With Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Abraham in Genesis 18:27-29 is not a dispute with a distant judge; he embodies a state of consciousness, the I AM speaking as dust and ashes yet alive with a vision of righteousness. The city’s fate is the outward weather of the mind’s inner weather. When he asks, “Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous,” he is testing the boundary of his own inner inventory—how much of the divine nature he truly believes is present in the affair. God’s replies, “If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it,” reveal that the outer world answers to the posture of the mind; not a fixed decree, but a reflection of inner loyalty to the covenant I AM. The repeated reduction from fifty to forty shows that mercy isn’t a concession from without but a revelation of the consciousness that holds the image of righteousness. This is the practical meaning: mercy is already contained within the I AM; to alter the world, you revise your inner assumption until it feels true, and the city—your environment—will follow. Remember: the bargain is with your inner self, and the effect is the peace you name as reality.