Rooted Ground, Inner Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Mark 4:16-17 speaks of hearers who receive the word with gladness, yet have no root in themselves, so they endure only for a time. In Neville’s terms, the seed is a truth you greet with the imagination, the ground is your inner state. When the mind leans on appearances—affliction or persecution—it behaves as if the word is not true, and offense arises. You must not resist the pressure but revise the ground itself. The subtle trick of the stones is belief in separation from God, a hardened sense of self that cannot hold. If you repeat a few affirmations and then forget them when a difficulty arises, you prove your root is shallow. The remedy is to dwell in the conscious assumption until it becomes the only reality. Stand in prayerful awareness that you ARE the word and the soil; let the root deepen by steady feeling of the desired state as already present, not as future. Every trial then confirms your unity with God rather than proving the word false. Your endurance is not physical patience but the quiet, unwavering conviction that you are one with the I AM.