Inner Covenant Through Immediate Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 17:23-24 invites us to see obedience as a waking of consciousness, not a ritual alone. Abraham's circumcision is the moment when the mind yields to the I AM and renames itself by that word. The flesh is only the outer symbol; inside, a whole field of belief is rearranged. When the command comes, the entire house of your thoughts, memories, and habits moves to reflect the new state. The act is not about a past event but about an inner decision: I am the one the I AM speaks through, and my allegiance is to that word. Obedience then becomes not coercion but alignment; to be faithful is to acknowledge that the covenant already is, and to live from that awareness. The cut that seems to separate is the realization that nothing external can define the self when the inner I AM has spoken. Your current life can echo this by honoring a single decisive inner command and stepping into the reality that already stands as true in your being.