One Thing Needful Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Mary’s choice points to the inward realm where the I AM stands as the one thing needful. Martha runs about with service and questions the lack of time, yet the text declares that only the inner acknowledgment of God as present truly matters. In Neville’s sense, the ‘good part’ is not a gesture but a state of consciousness—awareness that the Kingdom of God is here now as your own I AM, not a future deed. When you identify with that presence, you do not neglect outward duty; you redefine it from the inside. The world’s demands become reflections of your inner alignment, and thus cannot take away the remembered reality that God is your essential nature. The true worship is attentiveness to the feeling of the I AM, the quiet verdict that says I am with God; God is with me. This is the discernment that guards you from fear and keeps your faith steady, so that every action proceeds from this fixed point of inner reality. The good part endures because it is constructed in consciousness, not circumstance.