Inner Country of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the faith of the ancients is not about outward travel but the inward conversion of mind. They did not possess the promises in their hands; they possessed them in the I AM that regards all things as present. Seeing them afar off is the imagination’s first vision of a realized state, and embracing them is the conscious act of accepting that state as yours here and now. Their confession of being strangers on the earth marks a turning away from old identifications and toward a homeland defined by consciousness, not by geography. To say they seek a country is to acknowledge that the Kingdom of God lies within as a state of being you are becoming, not a place you travel to. If they had been mindful of the country from which they came, they might have returned, but they chose a different alignment—a better country, an heavenly one—awaiting them as a certainty within the I AM. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He recognizes the unity of their imagination with His own reality. The city prepared for them is simply the sense of home your mind can birth when it stops resisting the truth that you already dwell there.