Inner Covenant Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, these lines invite us to claim that God is the I AM who tests the heart to reveal the state of our inner being. Uprightness is not outward moral striving alone but a consistent feeling that matches the state you desire. When David says he has offered willingly, he exposes a spiritual practice: the outward acts are the natural overflow of an inward assumption. The phrase keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart becomes a command to persist in a vivid inner scene until it hardens into fact. The people present in your awareness symbolize the supports of your inner life, and the request to prepare their heart unto thee is a call to form trust and focus within every facet of consciousness. Give Solomon a perfect heart means opening the next phase of consciousness to obey the inner law, and building the palace is the manifestation of that inner order in outer form. The entire prayer points to living by a law of imagination, where the heart is upright and the vision endures.