Mercy Is the Inner Will

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of this passage as a disclosure of your true identity. The apostle speaks of mercy as something God freely dispenses by His will; Neville would tell you that God is the I AM you are, the self that never changes. If mercy is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy, then your salvation is not a product of effort but of inner alignment. The moment you stop counting your deeds and begin acknowledging that the I AM within you is the source of mercy, you have entered the state in which mercy operates. The outer world will reflect the inner conviction that the governing power is divine, not human. Hence the not of him that willeth is a counsel to relinquish the false actor called the ego-will and to let the One Power you are, the I AM, govern. In this light, grace becomes your natural condition, and what you once called luck or chance is seen as the awareness that God, as you, is merciful at every moment.