The Inner King Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the people's demand for a king is not about politics but about an inner state you entertain. God’s command to Samuel to 'hearken unto their voice, and make them a king' speaks to the moment you grant authority to a thought or feeling you have chosen as ruler. The 'king' becomes the image by which you order your inner kingdom. When Samuel says, 'Go ye every man unto his city,' he teaches a discipline: the crown, once claimed, is not given from without but assumed from within. The true kingdom of God rests in your own I AM, that steady awareness you are always already the ruler of your experience. The obedience required of Israel is obedience to your inner covenant—loyalty to the realization that you govern by perception, not by external forms. This scene invites you to align your desire with divine command: listen, choose, and inhabit the state of kingliness you proclaim. Through this inner act, outer events become the natural expression of the inner decree.