Inner King, Outer Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice the inner drama: the servants of Hadarezer are the stubborn thoughts that oppose your true center. Israel's king is David, the I AM within, the unchanging consciousness that rules your scene. When you acknowledge his sovereignty, you 'put to the worse' the rebellious images and they bow in peace. The act of making peace with David is an inner covenant: you decide that all faculties—memory, imagination, feeling—stand under one law. The Syrians stopping their support for Ammon is the withdrawal of old fears and externalized problems once your inner alignment is secure. This is the Kingdom of God not as a distant event, but as a present ruling state of mind. The moment you accept the king's authority, you no longer negotiate with lack or opposition; you revise those appearances by feeling the powerful peace you are, and allow the surface to fall into line. Your loyalty to the inner covenant transforms every scene: a defeated foe becomes a servant, a vanished ally becomes the memory of a previous limitation.