Always Standing Before God

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner state is the stage where the divine speaks. Jonadab’s fidelity to his father’s command is a parable of a mind that holds fast to a true decree. In Neville’s terms, the 'standing before me' is the continual alignment of consciousness with its own highest command. When you commit to a living inner principle and refuse to entertain contrary impulses, you enter a state of everlasting presence—the I AM in you recognizes and preserves that posture. The promise to Jonadab is a law: fidelity to a rightly chosen command becomes a channel through which God—your awareness—remains continually before you. The outward word becomes a metaphor for an inward habit; the covenant loyalty is the consistency of your imagination obeying a deliberate decree. So the spiritual meaning is not about a distant covenant but about your capacity to maintain a fixed, luminous state of awareness, in which the divine presence never leaves your side.