Inner Goodness Awakens Repentance

Neville's Inner Vision

Despisin' the riches of his goodness is to turn from the very source of your own awareness. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM within you, the steady light of consciousness you cannot escape. The 'goodness' is the continual well-being you already possess in awareness; 'forbearance' is the patient allowance you grant to your former states; 'longsuffering' is the generous pause before reacting, the space through which your new self can awaken. When you awaken to this inner abundance, you stop battling reality and begin the turn—repentance—not as guilt, but as a shift of attention toward your essential state. The goodness of God leads you to repentance because it makes visible the truth that you are already that which you seek: a living, aware, complete consciousness. Desiring externally fades as the inner light asserts itself. Repentance, in this reading, is a turning back to the I AM, a voluntary re-embodiment of your divine nature, here and now.