Inner Hospitality and Holiness

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 1:8 names a state of being, not a list of duties. Hospitality becomes the felt abundance of your inner world; loving good men is the clear discernment to honor truth and virtue within every encounter; sobriety, justice, holiness, and temperance describe a disciplined awareness that governs thoughts, words, and acts. In Neville's terms, these are states of consciousness you enter by assumption. Do not seek to perform them as external tasks; instead, assume I AM-like awareness that already holds them. When you inhabit this inner condition, your outer life responds: doors of opportunity, trustworthy companionship, and wise choices appear as if by magic. The imagination is the instrument: see yourself, now, as the celebrant of hospitality, the friend of good people, the sober judge, the just steward, the holy, temperate lover of life. Rest in that reality until it feels natural, and watch how your world conforms to the inner portrait.