Inner Author Of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the 'author and finisher of our faith' is a symbol for the I AM within you, the unbeginning and unending consciousness that writes your story. When you turn your attention to this inner author, the drama of life — the cross, the shame, the yearning for something better — loses its grip, for you are no longer the spectator but the writer. The 'joy that was set before him' becomes the vivid joy you choose in imagination as the goal of this moment, a present-tense feeling that your desire is already fulfilled in consciousness. Enduring the cross is simply persisting in the mental scene despite outward appearances, despising the shame by refusing to identify with it. Sitting at the right hand of the throne of God is your awareness rising to the seat of authority within, where you acknowledge that you are one with God's living I AM. Your faith is not a test but a tool you consciously shape through belief, revision, and feeling that what you imagine is already true.