Inner Obedience Echoes

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a study of your own inner command. The 'place' is a mental space where you are tempted to grant the old story power—bread and water representing familiar pleasures and past conditions. The Lord's word to eat no bread and drink no water is a decree from your higher Self, the I AM within, forbidding the indulgence of those cherished identifications. When the messenger returns and eats, he acts out a consciousness that believes it can override its higher law and still claim a lineage of success. The curse, 'thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers,' is not punishment but a signal that you cannot carry forward an old self into a new destiny. Therefore, stand in the command as your present fact. Let the command be the reality you inhabit, and allow your imagination to confirm your obedience. If you imagine yourself already having followed the instruction, you dissolve the split between the old self and the true I AM, and your future burial ground vanishes—your 'fathers' sepulchre' becomes, instead, the inner tomb of a limited self replaced by the living I AM.