Inner Covenant Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

To see this as external law would miss the truth. In Neville's tongue, the LORD thy God is your own I AM, the conscious presence that you are. Fear becomes a facing of limitation within you; walking in His ways is the inner habit of alignment with the divine pattern; loving and serving with all your heart and soul is the complete commitment of attention and feeling. The commandments and statutes are not distant edicts, but your inner law—immutable and good—set for your highest good. When you assume the position that you already are this faithful lover and servant, you awaken a state of consciousness in which fear dissolves, and obedience becomes natural movement toward harmony. The phrase for thy good indicates the fruit of this inner alignment: life expands in proportion to your fidelity to the inner law. The call is to dwell as the I AM, to imagine yourself walking in divine ways, and to feel that you already keep the commands by the consistency of your inner practice. Imagination therefore is not a trick but the very instrument of true obedience.