Nearness And Purity Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Draw near to God is the inward turning of attention to the I AM within. God is not distant but the constancy of your awareness. To cleanse your hands and purify your heart is to align your outer deeds and inner beliefs with that awareness, discarding the double-mindedness that splits you into factions. When you imagine, you are shaping your experience; when you believe what you imagine, you act as if it is already so. The moment you treat God as your immediate reality, you invite Him to rise in your life, and the remainder of life reorganizes itself to reflect that shift. The law at work here is not moral dos and don'ts but the consistency of your inner state. If you feel distant, revise the scene: see yourself in the presence of the I AM, hear the inward whisper that you are one with the source of all power, and dwell there until the sense of separation dissolves. Then your actions become purified by that center, and the conflict within you quiets.