Inner Covenant of Kingship Within

Neville's Inner Vision

I stand on the hill of Zemaraim and view the scene as a diagram of inner states. The kingdom of the LORD is not a political event but a state of consciousness that remains with the true king within—David’s line here stands for the living, acknowledged I AM. Jeroboam’s uprising is the restless, Belial-born mind that seeks substitutes for the one reality I affirm as mine. The “covenant of salt” is the fixed, preserving law of consciousness, an unbreakable agreement that the kingdom belongs to the self that knows it. Abijah calls the multitudes to see that their trusted power—apparent as a great multitude or as golden calves—cannot thwart the inner reign of the I AM. The calves are mere images fashioned by fear to divert attention from the one ruling presence. When I refuse to bow to a substitute and acknowledge the kingdom within as already established, I align with the sons of David—the true line of my inner government. The result is not struggle but rest in the realization that the LORD’s kingdom is eternally secure in my awareness.