Vocation's Inner Call 1 Kings 19:20

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the outer scene speaks of an inner decision. Elisha stands by the plow, the oxen representing the old self and its habitual movements. His request to kiss his father and mother is not sentiment but an inner trade: he honors the ties of the old identity only long enough to release them, then returns his attention to the higher call. Elijah’s reply, 'Go back again: for what have I done to thee?' is not a rebuke but a reminder: the moment of choosing has occurred within; any outward hesitation is simply the mind bargaining with itself. The real action is inward: you shift your state of consciousness from limitation to vocation, and the external event—following the prophet—follows as the natural expression of that inner change. In your own life, the question becomes: where are your oxen? what attachments keep you from the next known self? Answer by assuming you are already living from the higher state, feel the freedom of the new chosen path, and let the outward scene align with that inner state.