Inner Flock, Outer Hire

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Jacob as your I AM, standing at the edge of the inner pasture, passing through the field of your thoughts. He removes from the flock those beliefs you call lack speckled, spotted, or brown, and says these shall be his hire. The phrase my righteousness is not moral judgment but the solid alignment of your inner state with the law of creation. When you dwell in a fixed assumption I am abundantly provided that state answers for you in the time to come, and your outer life begins to reflect the chosen form. The outer agreement with Laban represents the permission of your environment to reflect your inner decree. If you insist that only certain appearances are legitimate, you cast the rest as stolen; yet this stolen line is simply your old picture yielding to a new vision, a revision you affirm with feeling. The practice is simple you decide the form your hire will take and hold that image until it is seen as the order of your world. In this sense the verse teaches that your inner act of selection is the cause, and the life you behold is the effect.