Beyond Foundations to Perfection

Neville's Inner Vision

To leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ is to stop treating knowledge as a chain of rules and begin living from the inner certainty of I AM. The principles are inner dispositions: fear, effort, and repentance from dead works; they are habits that keep you circling the same level. But perfection is not a future goal you chase; it is the inner state you already wear as your true identity. I revise the scene I live in: I stand in the mind of God as complete, and I feel that wholeness now. When I imagine from the end, when I enter the feeling place where every event is an expression of that one I AM, the outward life follows. Faith toward God becomes faith in the I AM within, and obedience becomes alignment with that inner law. The moment you stop proving yourself by external ritual and begin proving yourself by inner conviction, you rise into the maturity Hebrews speaks of.