Providence Reverses Laban's Scheme

Neville's Inner Vision

Your outer scene of deceit and shifting wages is but a mirror of your inner state. Laban, the stubborn condition, tries to bind you to lack; the changing wages are the stubborn sense of limitation. But the verse adds a truth: God suffered him not to hurt me, a statement that means your I AM, your inner divine awareness, does not allow harm to your being. In Neville's terms, the world is your dream and every appearance is a signal to revise. When you accept that the I AM within you is the source of all supply, you cease pleading with outer circumstances and begin to alter them by feeling and assumption. The \"cattle\" you see are thoughts and conditions your consciousness has grown to claim as yours. By dwelling in the awareness that God has already rearranged your experience—wages, provisions, and all—you experience the reversal as real now. The apparent external deceit dissolves into guidance, and prosperity becomes the natural expression of your perfected state. Trusting Providence, you find the shift you seek has already occurred in you.