Seed Of Abundance: Inner Lending

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the law is not a stingy rule but a mirror for your inner state. When you hear 'do not take usury,' imagine that the fee and gain are not in the other’s pocket but in your own belief in lack. The brother who borrows is your own awareness in a certain moment; fear of God becomes the discipline of keeping your heart open to life’s supply. The prohibition invites you to transact with generosity, not with the chilly math of interest; to lend without attachment to return, and to receive with gratitude without using the need of another to prove your worth. If you revise the sense of separation—if you feel that your neighbor is you, and you are him—the idea of 'increase' dissolves into shared vitality. In that inner economy, your outward conditions reflect a field of sufficiency that cannot be diminished by a temporary loan. So, the commandment is a call to align behavior with the awareness that God, the I AM, is your constant wealth and your neighbor’s life in you.