Staying in Perfect Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the verse as a statement of your inner state. When you say, ‘My mind is stayed on Thee,’ you are not praying to an external power but aligning your sense of self with the I AM that you are. Trust, in this light, is a choice of consciousness that resurrects peace from your own inner kingdom; it is not a condition imposed from without, but a remembering of God as your permanent associate. In this interpretation, ‘perfect peace’ is the quiet, unshaken awareness that no storm in the outer world can move a mind that abides in the substance of God. The word ‘everlasting strength’ is the assurance that your sense of ability arises from that same consciousness, not from circumstance. To live this, you must revise any image of separateness by returning to the assumption that you are one with the Lord JEHOVAH, your constant support. As you dwell in that assumption, you become the steadiness the words describe, and peace and strength become your natural condition.