Fruitful in Affliction: Inner Ephraim

Neville's Inner Vision

All of life is an inner drama. The land of affliction is not a place but a state of consciousness, a weather you permit by your assumption. When the scripture declares 'For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction,' it is telling you that the I AM within you, your awareness, can and does biologize any state you persist in imagining. Ephraim is the fruit of a mind not undone by hardship but sharpened by it; the name is a reminder that divine Providence works through your present cognition. The afflictive condition is real only as you insist it; yet you can revise it by accepting a new premise and dwelling in its feeling. Imagination is not escape; it is the very agent by which your inner desire becomes outer fact. So, you do not wait for conditions to change; you claim them now by the power of an unshaken assumption. Let the inner decision that 'I am fruitful' saturate every minute and the outward events will reflect that fruitfulness as surely as dawn follows night.