Pressing Toward the High Calling

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner life is the stage on which these words perform. Attainment is not a trophy somewhere in time, but a shift of state in consciousness. The I AM your awareness equals the Christ within, and to press toward the mark is to fix your attention on that state until it becomes your felt reality, not a distant ideal. When Paul says he has not apprehended, he speaks from the truth of the journey, not failure: the goal is inward, not outward proof. Forgetting those things behind is the spiritual practice of releasing old identities—the fears, the failures, the self-images that tell you you are less than. Reaching forth unto those things before means choosing again in the present, aligning thought and feeling with the calling you already are. The prize is the inner recognition that you are the I AM living as Christ Jesus in you. Practically, assume the state you desire, revise your self-image to match it, and feel it real until your outer life reflects the inner victory.