Covenant of Inner Courage

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Jabeshgilead as a state of consciousness besieged by a force named Nahash—the voice of threat and limitation within you. The covenant offered is not a treaty with a tyrant, but a mental bargain you make when you consent to a belief that you must serve fear or any limiting power. The right eye being thrust out speaks of a loss of clarity, the diminishment of discernment you allow when you submit to external control. The elders' seven days respite is your pause to revise your inner order, to send messengers to every coast of your mental terrain for aid. In this Neville style reading, the scene announces that all conditions are images in consciousness; the enemy is a belief you have accepted as real. You can refuse to finalize this covenant; you can revise from within and declare I AM here; my awareness governs what I accept and what I see. By assuming deliverance now, by feeling it real, you awaken a power that sets the terms of your experience, reaching for a salvation that arises from your own inner covenant and courage.