Inner Righteousness by Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, this text is not about outward rules but about an inner state awakening. The 'righteousness of God' is a consciousness enabled by faith in the Christ within, freely given apart from the merely external law. When the verse says, 'unto all and upon all them that believe,' it points to belief as a state of awareness—not a ritual—where one accepts the divine diagnosis and permits the inner Light to act. 'For all have sinned' speaks to the ego's identity with lack and separation; 'being justified freely by his grace' becomes the moment you feel your nature bathed in grace, not earned by effort. The 'redemption that is in Christ Jesus' is the release from the old story of separation, a returning to the unity of life in you; 'to declare his righteousness' is simply the I AM declaring the truth of your being in this very instant, so that the past sins are seen as already resolved in awareness. In this light, God is just and the justifier because the self recognizes itself as the standard and the salvation simultaneously—your awareness is the law fulfilled and the promise kept inside you.