Inner Rebuke for Sound Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your mind, a scene emerges: a voice that labels others—perhaps you—as 'Cretians,' a habitual story that persists as 'liars' or 'evil beasts.' Paul’s rush of agreement—'this witness is true'—is not about condemning people but about diagnosing a pattern in your own thinking. The command to rebuke them sharply is a call to discipline the inner chatter that keeps you bound to doubt. To rebuke here means to refuse to entertain the lie and to replace it with a steadfast assumption. When you say, 'I am sound in the faith,' you untie imagination from fear and set it to faith’s purpose. The inner 'soundness' is not a verdict about others but a provision of your mind: the awareness (I AM) that shapes what you accept as real. The so-called Cretians become your own habits of accusation, your memory’s betrayals, your restless stories. By honoring faith and separating from that inner noise, you align with holiness in practice—obedience to truth as you conceive it in consciousness. In this way, judgment becomes a healing correction, not a weapon.