Inner Sabbath Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this verse speaks not of a calendar decree but a state of consciousness. When you hear 'Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it,' you hear: preserve a moment in your mind where time itself is set apart. The Sabbath is not time out from life, but the inner disposition that makes every moment a holy pause. The LORD thy God is not a distant deity; God is the I AM within you, the fact of conscious presence. Therefore, sanctifying time means aligning your affect, attention, and imagining with that Presence. In practice, you revise your ongoing sense of obligation and fatigue by assuming you are already in a rested, reverent state. Do not seek the rest as external; seek it as the feeling of 'I AM' governing all activity. When you faithfully live from that inner cadence, your days reorganize; your obedience is simply noticing what you already are. Your world follows your inner state; thus you literally keep time holy by keeping your awareness in the Lord God within.