Inner Obedience Annotated

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Abraham not as a man of old, but as a state of consciousness named Obedience. When I hear the inner voice—my I AM—I do not resist or reason away. I assent; I allow the inner charge to lead my thoughts, decisions, and acts. The 'commandments, statutes, and laws' are the inner principles by which I order my inner world: patience, integrity, fidelity, and steadfast trust. By obeying the voice, I align with the abiding law that governs my being; this is not coercion but harmonization with the living I AM within. As I persist in this alignment, the outer circumstances respond as a faithful echo: faith and results grow because the inner state is kept in order. The verse teaches that obedience is the foundation of covenant—the inner agreement between myself and the divine I AM, the felt sense of truth that cannot be broken by fear or doubt. Each moment of listening and following is a reaffirmation of my tenet that imagination creates reality.