Inner Wealth Ransom

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 13:8 presents a paradox: wealth is the ransom of life, but the poor hear rebuke not. Look within. The 'ransom' is the distinctive psychological state in which the Self—the I AM—safeguards life by knowing provision is already given. When you dwell in the consciousness of sufficiency, your riches are the price exacted for any fear of loss; they stand as the inner arrangement that arrests decay and keeps manifestation from dissolving. The 'poor' who hear not rebuke is the mind still convinced of lack, deaf to correction because it identifies with limitation. As you shift your inner mood from lack to abundance, you listen to the rebuke of the imagination—your own deeper calling to revise belief—until the correction becomes nourishment, not rebuke. Wealth is not property out there; it is the feeling of I AM alive in the realization that God provides. In that state, every situation answers to your assumption.