The Inner Lion of Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse is not about a geographic lion, but about the inner beast of habit when you leave your state of consciousness. The 'voice of the LORD' is the I AM within you—the steady directive your consciousness follows. To depart from it is to shift your inner state; the lion that slays is the natural result of living out of harmony with the inner command. The 'judgment' here is not punishment from a distant deity but a mirror: you have stepped into a disobedient mental posture, and your imagination now yields the consequence. The cure is to return to the original assumption: you are hearing and obeying the LORD within, and your reality is formed by this obedience. By dwelling in the feeling of that inner obedience, you invalidate the power of fear and old patterns. Imagination creates reality; thus a steadfast inner alignment converts potential danger into the very safety of your realized state. So the lion disappears not by flight but by returning to the I AM.