Inner Wealth Over Pleasures

Neville's Inner Vision

Do you see, beloved, that the verse speaks not to a moral crime outside you but to a state you entertain within? The man who loves pleasure is identifying with lack, a consciousness that measures wealth by wine and oil and finds it fleeting. When you insist upon sensory gratification as your sovereign, you decree scarcity into your world; your outer provision becomes a ransom exchanged for your inner fear. But the line about the wicked and the upright reveals the law at work: the world rearranges itself to reflect the ruler you have seated in the I AM—the awareness that you are. To reverse the current, you do not argue with appearances; you assume the end—the feeling of abundance—as your natural condition. In that assumed state, the so-called wicked cannot hold you; the heart of the righteous is held by your stable consciousness, and what you call fortune aligns with your inner state. So, dwell in the truth that you are the I AM, and let the appetite for pleasure yield to the steady joy of sufficiency.