Inner Obedience Revealed in Samuel

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the scene is not history but your inner state. The voice Saul claims to hear is your own I AM, the inmost directive that says, 'Do this—do it completely.' When Saul reports destruction yet clutches the spoil, you meet a familiar inner split: outward compliance without inner consent. The spoil stands for the sensations and desires your ego wants to keep while presenting a pious image. Gilgal becomes a ritual stage where you pretend to have obeyed while your heart remains distant from the command. Neville teaches that God is not a tradition but the awareness you are. If you want to worship truly, you must align the inner motive with every command, not only when it is convenient. So revise in your imagination: you have obeyed the Lord's voice to the full, and you are willing to take no spoils that betray your inner order. In that revision, the mere act of obedience is the feeling of your I AM in control, and judgment fades as harmony replaces self-justification.