Inner Law and Promises

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the verse as a clue to your innermost state. The law is pictured as a system of rules outside consciousness, but life and righteousness are not earned by rules; they are the fruit of an awakened awareness—the I AM. The 'promises of God' are inner possibilities awaiting realization through faith in your own divine nature. When you imagine you are already righteous by the mere fact of your being, the sense of lack dissolves and the old carpentered law loses its grip. The true law is not a prohibition but a directive of consciousness: you are the living presence in whom the promise is fulfilled. So do not seek life through works; seek life through the realization that you are the source of all that God promised. Your task is not to obey a checklist but to assume and feel the truth of your awakened nature, to dwell in the certainty that your 'righteousness' is a present-state of awareness, not a future achievement.