Hold Fast, Provoke Love

Neville's Inner Vision

Hebrews 10:23-24 invites us to keep the faith alive in awareness, for the faithful I AM never withdraws his promise. When you understand 'holding fast' as holding a single, unwavering conviction in your own consciousness—namely that God is right here, within you—you discover that wavering is a mental mood, not a fact of life. The 'profession of our faith' becomes a posture of imagining yourself already at one with the divine promise, and the injunction to 'consider one another' is a directive to sharpen your inner vision toward others, not by doubt but by love's active imagination. To provoke unto love and good works is to awaken the energy that charity requires by feeding your inner state with the truth that you already possess it. In this light, passages of endurance are simply reminders to persist in the feeling of already having what you seek, until your outer world repeats the inner truth. You are not appealing to a distant deity; you are becoming the I AM in action, here and now.