Inner Rest by Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

In the language of the apostle, rest stands not in a place but in consciousness. The promised rest is yours the moment you cease resisting the truth that you are the I AM, the living awareness that experiences itself as life. When you hear the gospel—the invitation that the kingdom is at hand—you must not listen with doubt, but with faith that accepts it as true now. If you entertain fear that you are still outside, you mix the message with argument and it profits nothing; but if you blend it with the feeling of already possessing it, the word awakens your inner state and the outer scene follows. Therefore, cultivate the imagination that sees yourself as already resting in the promised land; refuse to let your present circumstances contradict the inner verdict. The rest is not a future event but an inner alignment; the faith you blend with the gospel is the imagination that accepts the I AM as source, not as distant power.