Assurance Through Faith and Patience

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, you are addressed not as distant history but as a state of consciousness that already endures: better things accompany salvation because you have learned to dwell in the I AM who remembers your labor of love. God is not unrighteous to forget your acts of kindness toward the name within you; your ministrations are inner ministerings to the saints in your own heart. The call to diligence is a discipline of consciousness: sustain the feeling of the assurance of hope until the end by refusing to identify with delay or lack. In Neville fashion, the promises are not future far-off things; they are the fruit of a present imagination persistently anchored in faith and patience. When you persist in imagining yourself as one who has inherited, you align your inner movements with the desired outer event. Do not believe you are devoid of progress; believe you have already entered the state of salvation as your awareness holds to the vision of it.