Joy in the Lord Philemon 1:20

Neville's Inner Vision

To interpret this verse, recognize that the 'I' and the 'you' are states of consciousness, and 'in the Lord' means within the same I AM. The request to let him have joy in the Lord is an invitation to align the other's inner state with your own awareness, so that joy arises as a shared reality rather than a mere courtesy. The word 'bowels' points to the inner spring of feeling; asking to be refreshed in the Lord is a call to revise one's mood by invoking the other's divine reference. When you affirm that you and the brother are one in the Lord, you awaken a condition in which his consciousness nourishes your feeling of delight. The practical act of faith is imagination: by dwelling in the assumption of unified awareness, you alter the inner weather of both parties until the heart is renewed by that same light. In short, this verse teaches that true refreshment comes from a shared, I AM-centered state that your imagination can create and sustain.