Inner Covenant of Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a portrait of the mind in covenant with itself. Jonadab's command, though spoken of wine and tents, is really the decision your I AM makes to stand under a fixed principle. The children's claim that they have lived in obedience is not about external behavior alone but about an inner alignment: a steady state of consciousness that does not yield to seasonal impulses or changing appearances. When you decide, I will drink no wine, you banish any intoxicant to your awareness—doubt, fear, or compromise—that would alter your truth. Dwelling in tents signals that you refuse to court the appearance of settled property or status; you stay with the inner premise wherever you travel. The voice of the father is the inner law you consent to obey; obedience becomes the felt reality by which the unseen life manifests. The miracle is not rebellion against history but alignment with an immutable I AM that remains unchanged by circumstance. If you want a new outward fruit, imagine already living from that inner vow, and feel the certainty of its issue as if you are already there.