Submitting to Inner Masters

Neville's Inner Vision

To the ear of faith, 1 Peter 2:18 speaks not of subservience to people but of obedience to the dominant state of consciousness you are willing to wear. The 'servant' is any aspect of you that yields to a persuasive impression; the 'master' is the commanding idea you hold in awareness. When you hear 'be subject with all fear,' take it as an invitation to reverence toward the inner state you have chosen to inhabit. The good and gentle master stands for a lived harmony; the froward master stands for resistance, fear, and stubbornness. You are not asked to endure external tyranny, but to revise your inner assumption until the I AM—the sole master of your reality—takes command. For imagination creates reality, and your outer world mirrors the inner atmosphere you persist in. If you persist in a state of quiet authority, the outer conditions follow, aligning with your revised sense of being. Thus, submission becomes a spiritual practice of aligning with your true master within.