Inner Steps of Fidelity

Neville's Inner Vision

Job is not simply recording pious duties; he narrates a state of consciousness in which the I AM is the director and the world is its image. When he says his foot held steps and he kept the way, he describes an inner discipline: a refusal to deviate from the 'commandment of His lips.' The lips' commandment is the inner speech of truth—what you now know to be real in you. To esteem those words above food is to choose the inner nourishment of conviction over external appetite. In Neville’s view, the outward life is the echo of an inner assumption. Stand in that assumption until the sense of 'lips' commandment' becomes your actual felt reality. The faithfulness Job speaks of is faithfulness to the I AM within, not to any changing circumstance. When you hold to that inner law, you do not flee; you stay with the intention that your life conforms to the divine pattern. Thus, the path you walk is sustained by inner belief—imagination holding the steps, and the world following your faithful, unshakable consciousness.