Freedom Beyond External Rules

Neville's Inner Vision

In Colossians 2:21-23, 'touch not; taste not; handle not' are not commands to holiness but symbols of a mind enslaved to outward forms. The 'commandments and doctrines of men' become a subtle bondage when life is mistaken for law. 'Will worship' and humility that neglects the body represent a counterfeit worship—the self striving to earn favor through denial. Yet the inner kingdom speaks now: I AM, awareness, the one life within. When you stop chasing external rules and invoke the still, sovereign I AM, these prohibitions collapse into their source. The flesh’s authority wanes as you stop consenting to it; you dwell in the truth that life is not produced by the body’s rules but by the consciousness that perceives through it. The apparent perishing of man-made rituals reveals that true worship is inner communion, a state of awareness that fashions experience from within.