Living God Within You

Neville's Inner Vision

Every statement of scripture is a description of your inner state. When Jesus says God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He names a line of inner lifework, not a genealogical pedigree. The God they worshiped is the I AM that animates your imagination. The 'dead' are stale emplacements of fear, lack, or memory; the 'living' are the present acts of faith who awaken to the truth that life continues in consciousness. Thus, the verse invites you to identify with the living, not the tomb. Your inner Abraham is perseverance, your Isaac is the handed-down trust, your Jacob is the struggle transformed into prevailing thought. The God who is present in them is the same God in you—the indwelling awareness that never dies, only shifts form as you imagine. Imagination creates reality; to say God is the God of the living is to declare that your inner life is not bound by past events but by the present I AM. In every moment you can revise the sense of self by turning attention to that living presence; feel the heartbeat of God as your own awareness. The covenant loyalty is simply loyalty to this inner presence, a pledge to dwell in the assumption that life persists in you as you intend it. This is resurrection, a daily alignment of mind with the living reality of God within.