From Servant to Brother: Inner Kinship

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the text invites you to see all relationships as states of consciousness. When Paul says I would do nothing without thy mind, he names the inner authority of the I AM, the mind that can revise a scene by assuming a new reality. The departure of Onesimus for a season is not fate but a shift in your inner atmosphere, allowing you to receive him forever by changing your stance toward him. To regard him not as a servant but above a servant, a brother beloved in the flesh and in the Lord, is a call to recognize the image of God in another and to enact it in your world. Your outer relations reflect your inner alignment. If you feel kinship now, the outer form follows; freedom is then realized as willing participation, not coercion. The Lord here is the I AM that makes this possible; through imagination you can convert a social role into a heartbeat of enduring fellowship.