Inner Patience Through Trials

Neville's Inner Vision

James invites us to see every outward trial as a mirror of inner reality. The temptations are not to be resisted in fear but acknowledged as signals of the state you are assuming. The trying of your faith, the pressure you feel, is simply your consciousness testing its own premises. If impatience or doubt rise, they reveal an older assumption awaiting revision. When you understand that the testing of faith works patience, you are offered a path: stay with the feeling of the outcome as already true. Do not chase the event; claim the end. If you imagine yourself already perfected—patient, whole, complete—you begin to awaken the inner faculties that rearrange circumstances to reflect that inner state. Your imagination, when felt as real now, births the conditions you desire. Remember, God is the I AM within; you are not a victim but the architect naming reality by conscious assumption.