The Lord Keeps You

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the verse, consciousness is not a distant event but the steady state of your own awareness. 'The Lord is faithful' becomes a description of the I AM that you are, the unerring, ever-present self that stabilizes every scene. When you affirm that it shall establish you, you are not waiting for God to act outside you; you are reviving the conviction that your inner identity is already established, fixed in divine order. 'Keep you from evil' translates as a freeing of fear from your mental atmosphere. Evil is but a transient suggestion that you no longer entertain; in the light of the I AM, it cannot gain traction. Your imagination is the instrument by which this truth is made visible: once you dwell in the feeling of being held steady and protected by the eternal you, the outer circumstances align to reflect this inner state. Trust is not a future promise but a present acknowledgment of your real condition: you are kept by the fidelity of your own divine nature.