Inner Joy Beyond Rewards

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel is the inner state that has wandered from its God. The command 'Rejoice not' is not a ban on feeling good, but a call to watch where your pleasure lives. To 'love a reward upon every cornfloor' is to worship the outward token—money, status, daily success—rather than the One Presence that animates them. This is the 'whoring' Hosea denounces: the mind flirting with contingent riches as if they prove you exist. Neville teaches that the true worship is awareness: I AM, the constant I within. When you remember that God is your life, genuine joy arises from consciousness itself, independent of circumstance. Practice sees events as movements of inner energy, and poverty or plenty become signals in the same stream. The shift is gradual but real: reverse the assumption from "I am blessed when the cornfloor smiles" to "I am the I AM, joy and provision are my natural state." As you dwell in that realization, the outer world begins to reflect it, not as reward, but as the evidence of inner harmony.