The Inner Messenger and Ransom

Neville's Inner Vision

This verse does not present a distant act of God, but the awakening of your own consciousness. The 'messenger' is a state of awareness—one among a thousand denominations of thought—whose function is to interpret your uprightness to you. When you attend to that interpreter, you feel the I AM rise within you, and grace becomes a present atmosphere: you are gracious unto yourself and rescued from the pit of fear. The 'ransom' is the recognition that the entire deliverance rests in a fixed assumption, not in luck or external mercy; to say 'I have found a ransom' is to acknowledge that your assumption of wholeness releases you from bondage. In this view, the mediator is not a person but a shift in the mind, a sunlit witness declaring your rightness. The moment you claim this truth—here, now—that the inner messenger has spoken and you are seen upright, your surroundings respond to the altered vibrational state. Mercy, then, is the natural consequence of living as the I AM, and grace is the steady experience of being fully conscious. You are not waiting for rescue; you are the very act of rescue.