Inner Purity of Proverbs 20:9

Neville's Inner Vision

Settle into the awareness that the text does not condemn longing for purity; it unveils the error of claiming purity as a state earned by effort. The I AM, your essential self, remains pristine when you stop projecting cleanliness as a future result. To say I have made my heart clean is to identify with separation, to place purity outside the present moment. Your true forgiveness comes as you yield to the living consciousness that you are, and allow the feeling of wholeness to occupy your attention. See that the appearances of sin are merely thoughts moving within awareness, not facts about your real nature. When you return to I AM and imagine your heart bathed in its light, the sense of sin dissolves and a new sense of ease arises. The verse invites you to revise the self from a state of deficiency to a state of wholeness already in your being. Practice today by inhabiting the assumption that your heart is clean now, and let the feeling of that reality fill your entire sense of self.