I Am: Laying Down and Rising

Neville's Inner Vision

View the Father as your I AM, the eternal self within. When the verse speaks of laying down life, understand it as relinquishing an old self-image or limiting story you have believed about yourself. No one can take this from you, because the act is a decision of your own consciousness; the power to take it up again is your imagination—the ability to re-create your state of being. The commandment received from the Father is the inner directive of consciousness: decide a new state, dwell in it, and let your feeling and perception conform to it as real. This is not about external sacrifice but internal alignment: the more you affirm and inhabit the new state, the more your outer world reflects that inner truth. When you awaken to I AM, you realize you are the author of your moments, not a passive recipient of circumstance, and love from the Father becomes the steady assurance of your inner sovereignty.