Inner Hire, Inner Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 30:31-34 presents not a business contract, but a turning of inner perception. Jacob does not bargain with Laban’s world for money; he tests and forms his own state. The cattle he names as his hire are the very symbols of his inner choosing: speckled, spotted, brown—traits that represent differentiated possibilities within his consciousness. By saying 'if thou wilt do this for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock,' he commits to a labor that is really a labor of cultivation, a discipline of attention. When he declares, 'So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come,' he names the law by which inner rightness becomes outer fact: the outer hire will reflect the inner state that has been assumed. The 'I' in Jacob—the I AM aware mind—chooses a criterion for experience, and the world conforms to that inner standard. This is the Neville idea: your present sense of self, your state, drafts your future scenes. The agreement with Laban is but a mirror of a decision already made in consciousness: abundance follows consistent, just action, and what you fix upon as 'hire' becomes your experienced reality.