Guarding the Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the text speaks not of geography but of your inner country. The I AM is your true neighbor; forming a covenant with any belief that claims authority over you is a misalignment, a call to partnership with an idol. When you permit another god to dwell in your inner land, you invite a snare, for you are pulled away from your own direct awareness. In Neville's terms, to dwell among idols is to entertain a belief in lack or limitation. The covenant you guard is loyalty to the I AM—your one, undivided consciousness. Idols are merely habitual thoughts, social pressures, or seductive images that pretend to rule you. If you permit them, you sin against your true self, because you align with a lesser power. The remedy is simple: refuse the covenants that are not with the I AM, revise any belief that compromises that loyalty, and feel-it-real your sovereignty as the sole governor of your experience. By standing in that inner land as a boundary, you keep it holy and free from snare.