Inner Covenant of Union

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the lines of 7:3-4 become a mirror of your inner state. The husband and wife are not separate persons competing for control; they are two aspects of your single consciousness discovering harmony through benevolent exchange. When you feel you own your own body or the body of another, you divorce yourself from the divine union; when you commit to render benevolence and to honor the other, you acknowledge your shared nature in God. The 'due benevolence' is the inner discipline of loving attention—putting daylight on the other half of your being and allowing its needs to become your own expression of presence. The equal claim over the body becomes a symbol of equal claim over every thought and feeling that arises within you; you stop resisting and begin reverence. In practice, see your spouse as the outward sign of your inner unity, and align your inner weather with that truth. Your life will respond with harmony to your revised conviction of covenant loyalty.