Inner Obedience, Outer Sacrifice

Neville's Inner Vision

Saul’s words speak not of distant ritual but of an inner arrangement: he admits the people saved the best to offer to God, as if the act of sacrifice could cover a disobedient state. In this moment, the bleating and the lowing are not animal sounds but your own inner clamor when you cling to customary deeds while refusing alignment with the divine principle within. Samuel’s protest reveals the true law: obedience to the inner command surpasses the outward ritual. The ‘sacrifice’ at which you aim is ever an image born from your present state of consciousness; the moment you accept that you are the I AM and that imagination creates reality, you see that genuine worship is the alignment of your life with the law you accept within. When you refuse to obey, you hear the world react with noise and signs of order; when you choose obedience, the inner landscape quiets and becomes sacral, not by ritual but by fidelity to the I AM.