The Inner Song of Praise

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the outer command—the singing of praise and the bowing of heads—points to an inner command: choose to inhabit the state of praise now. In Neville’s terms, the scene is a map of your own consciousness. The king and princes are your higher faculties, and the Levites are the energies you marshal to cultivate a single, fearless awareness: I AM. When you refuse to wait for conditions to feel right and instead invoke the words of David and Asaph as your inner script, you become the singer before the Lord of your own being. The gladness is not a mood earned from outside; it is the assumption that the divine idea is already present, and that you are its instrument. The bowing of heads represents surrender to truth, a release of resistance that makes room for divine order to move. The act of praising becomes a practice of revision: you revise your sense of lack to abundance, your sense of separation to unity. This is worship that changes the inner weather and, consequently, the outer scene, because God is awareness and imagination is the tool by which reality is drawn forth.