The Inner Covenant of Love

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage the outer command to love points to an inner state: you are already loved and empowered in your I AM. When you acknowledge that your awareness is the field in which relationships are formed, love becomes not an achievement but your natural posture. 'Greater love' becomes your capacity to surrender the old self's demands for the new self's willingness to be used by your Father within. You are not separated from Him; you are His chosen friend, and all that the Father reveals to you flows through your consciousness. To lay down your life for your friends is to release competitive self-claims and to let the image of God around and through you define your actions. The idea that you will ask in the name of Jesus and receive is an invitation to assume the state in which your desires are already granted in consciousness; fruit that remains is the enduring results of abiding in that state. See, the command to love and the promise of answered prayer are two facets of one inner conversion: you shift your inner vision until what you seek appears as your own realized state.