Inner Messenger of Christ's Work

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the apostle Paul speaks as your higher self, and Epaphroditus is a quality of your own consciousness that goes to the limit for the benefit of the whole. This messenger does not care for personal ease; he is 'nigh unto death' in the service of the Christ within, not regarding his life, so that your lack of service toward the inner 'me' may be supplied. When you imagine receiving him 'in the Lord' with gladness, you are practicing a shift of consciousness: the Lord—the I AM within you—is not distant but present in this very act. The 'work of Christ' becomes the movement of your inner life completing what was incomplete in your self-expression. Sorrow falls away as you acknowledge that the inner messenger has fulfilled the need in you, and you begin to treat such fidelity as a model for your own thoughts and actions. The goal is to honor and relax into these inner messengers, to hold them in reputation, and to let their courage inform your daily choices, until your entire being serves the one Christ within.