Romans 1:8-12 Inner Communion

Neville's Inner Vision

You are not reading a distant letter about people two thousand years ago; you are reading a map of your own inner state. The 'God' Paul serves is your own I AM, the ever-present awareness that makes a thing real. When he says your faith is 'spoken of throughout the whole world,' understand that your inner conviction travels as light through every department of your life, drawing experiences to support it. The 'gospel of his Son' is the gospel of your inner Christ—your true nature—through which you act and decide. To serve with his spirit means you labor within, not for praise, but to align your outer activity with the truth you feel inside. When he writes that he prays without ceasing, receive that as a practice: you carry the others in your conscious awareness, and prayer becomes the steady tuning of your mind to the end you seek. The wish to come unto them by the will of God is the inner willing of your I AM to direct your steps toward harmony, not force. The gift you long to impart is clarity, a spiritual heat that establishes others in their own faith; and the mutual faith is the shared comfort of one consciousness.