Rejoice in the Inner Lord

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the psyche, 'the Lord' is your I AM, the living awareness that never changes. Rejoicing in the Lord is not external happiness but the stabilization of consciousness in its own being. When Paul says writing the same things is not grievous, he points to the naturalness of repeating truth to shore up your state; the repetition is a mental reorientation, a revision of memory toward wholeness. The warnings—dogs, evil workers, concision—map inner tendencies: 'dogs' are the fearful, barking thoughts that label others or deny your unity; 'evil workers' are the mind's anxious acts to force outcomes; 'the concision' is the belief that one carries a fragment or outward sign of spirituality. The danger is thinking the sign or the external act constitutes the life; true life is awareness itself. Your task is to guard your inner state, not by condemning others, but by refusing to concede to those claims of separation. If you rest in the Lord now, you are safe; if you revise any belief that you must earn favor, you awaken to your oneness.