Inner Obedience and Well-Being

Neville's Inner Vision

Read through Neville’s lens, the command becomes an inner law, not a decree about others. 'Children, obey your parents in the Lord' translates as: align your present state with the inner authority that governs you—the I AM within. Your 'father' and 'mother' symbolize the beliefs, feelings, and habits that formed your current consciousness; to honor them is to acknowledge their role without clinging to their old shapes. The first commandment with promise points to a psychology: when you honor the source of your conditioning and still your insistence against it, your inner atmosphere stabilizes. Then conditions on the earth begin to reflect that inner order. Obedience 'in the Lord' is obedience to the Life-principle within, not submission to external power. If you practice this alignment, you will feel well-being radiating through days, and your life will seem longer in the sense of deeper rootedness and fewer upheavals. The promise is psychological as much as physical: order within becomes order in your outward experience.