Inner Obedience Through Suffering

Neville's Inner Vision

Your 'Son' is the higher self—the I AM—awakening through the scenes of inner life. Hebrews 5:8 says he learned obedience by the things he suffered, which Neville reads as the mind's training ground. Suffering is not punishment but the inner friction that compels you to revise your state. Obedience, in this light, is a yielded awareness—an inner alignment with the divine pattern you already are. Rather than seeking to alter outer conditions, you attend to your inner conviction: that the I AM is in charge, and that through imaginative acceptance you become obedient to that law. When pain, doubt, or delay arise, welcome them as material for inner transformation. Foresee the end you desire and feel as if it is already yours, and this feeling-school teaches your consciousness to obey the inner directive. The 'son' who suffers is simply the waking awareness learning through experience, not a separate savior; you are that savior by choosing the right state of consciousness and letting it express as your reality.