Inner Covenant of Rechabites

Neville's Inner Vision

Jonadab's words to his sons become a state of consciousness when they are not merely said but lived. The Rechabites drink no wine because they have internalized a father-commandment so deeply that it becomes their habitual self—an outer sign of an inner acceptance. In Neville's terms, God is the I AM—the awareness that dwells behind every event—and imagination is the tool by which a person enacts that inner law. When Jeremiah says, 'I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me,' the text points to a mind that is hearing yet refusing to consent to the reality of the command. The contrast invites you to revise your own mental state: choose a version of yourself that obeys the inner decree, feeling it as already true. The Rechabites are simply showing what a convinced inner state looks like when lived, while Judah dramatizes the cost of doubt. If you persist in the assumption that the inner word is your present fact, your experience follows the same pattern: obedience becomes the natural state of your life, not a task.