I Am Within: Inner Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture trouble as a weather of consciousness, not a pile of problems. When I say, 'Give us help from trouble,' the cry is really, 'Let me awaken to the I AM that is already with me.' The psalmist knows that human aid is vain when measured against the presence of God within; the word 'through God we shall do valiantly' becomes a statement of fact about your inner state, not a distant intervention. See the I AM as the boundaryless life in you, the awareness that can tread down every imagined enemy by simply standing in the truth that you are God's image. The enemies are fear, doubt, limitation—cast out not by force but by assuming the victory as your current condition. When you practice this, you move from pleading for support to identifying with the victorious life that you already are. Your outer results follow from your inner alignment with God, and what seems external is but the echo of your internal conviction.