Inner Law and Sin: Romans 7:13

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the good as the authentic spiritual law of your being—the I AM aware, the higher state you seem to approach. When you set the standard of what should be, sin sweeps into action as a memory or feeling of lack, showing you that you have not yet identified with the state you seek. The verse says that the commandment makes sin exceedingly sinful, meaning that the very standard you adopt awakens the old self to prove its existence. Yet the practice is not to resist the standard but to draw your awareness into the I AM and to reverse the sense of self from observer to creator. When you assume the feeling of the fulfilled state, you realize that sin is only a disturbance in consciousness; in the light of the I AM, it dissolves. The good and the commandment become diagnostic tools, not weapons; they reveal what you have believed you are, so you can revise your sense of self and affirm your holiness now.