Inner Integrity in Temptation

Neville's Inner Vision

Joseph’s refusal is not a mere moral gesture but a choice aligned with the I AM within. The 'master' and the 'wife' are outward figures representing your own inner dialogues and temptations. When she says, Lie with me, you do not comply with the impulse; you remind yourself that you are the steward of a greater order, the God within who knows all that you have is yours to guard, and that real privilege comes from consonance with inner law. The inner state you inhabit determines what your world nourishes. Temptation is simply a call to see yourself as separate from the whole. To answer with 'how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?' is to acknowledge that sin is the rupture of union with the I AM. When you remain in the consciousness that you are backed by divine order, the external appearance cannot draw you; you live as one who is kept by the inner law, and your circumstances respond to that alignment.