Touched With Inner Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

In Mark 1:40-42, the leper is not a punishment but a state of consciousness believing itself unworthy and isolated. Jesus, moved with compassion, is the I AM within you that refuses to condemn any part of you. The touch is not a medical act but a felt recognition: a shift of attention from fear to love, from separation to unity. When Jesus says, I will; be thou clean, he does not request cleansing from without; he issues a decree from within, a new state of being. Immediately the old condition yields as consciousness accepts the truth of wholeness. The leprosy departs because the mind aligns with its own truth: what you are is whole, unblemished, and already loved. Neville would say the leper’s cry is your own, a plea to the timeless I AM to awaken wellness you already are. The moment you entertain the implied answer—yes, I will—your inner air shifts, the image reforms, and healing appears as your natural state.