Inner Yoke Lightened Now

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Jeroboam and all Israel as the voices of your own mind demanding relief from a hard, inherited yoke of habit and fear. The king Rehoboam stands for your present sense of self—your authorities and decisions—but within the request lies a timeless truth: the burden you bear is not imposed from outside, but assumed in consciousness. When you hear, 'make the grievous service lighter,' you are hearing the inner invitation to revise the state of mind that created the burden. The 'yoke' is your conditioning, and the promise of service is your willingness to serve a freer you. The call comes from the whole congregation of yourself, begging you to awaken to a new decree: I am the one who lights the inner world; I can lighten the load by shifting the assumption behind it. The moment you entertain the feeling of relief, the old yoke dissolves, and your external history follows the inner shift. You do not fight the yoke—you simply replace the assumption that it must stay with the awareness that it has never ruled the I AM, who is always free.