Righteousness in Barrenness

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Zacharias and Elisabeth not as distant figures, but as inner states of mind. Luke says they were righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and blameless; yet their outer world bears the mark of barrenness. The truth I teach you is that the 'no child' and the 'well stricken in years' are not curses but inner conditions. The I AM they stood in is the living imagination, and within it obedience becomes faith. Barrenness becomes the invitation to turn from appearances to the inner idea that you have already conceived what you seek. Their blamelessness is not obedience to a rule but alignment with the Law of your own consciousness: what you consistently imagine, you corroborate by feeling. The environment—Herod, the course of Abia—is not the cause; the cause is where you place your attention. When you assume the presence of the desired child (the new idea, breakthrough, or blessing) as real and now, that reality begins to unfold in your external world, regardless of time or circumstance. So I tell you: the moment you dwell in the I AM as your own reality, you are already bearing that which you seek.