Inner Covenant, Outer Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Joshua's battlefield is your psyche. Israel stands for your I AM, the indwelling awareness that is awake to the final state. The text tells us there was no city that made peace with Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; all the rest they took by battle. This is not history but a map of your mind: peace comes to the parts that have surrendered to the one ruling consciousness, covenant loyalty to the I AM. The Gibeonites represent the loyal facets of self that consent to one judgment, one king. When that covenant is planted in imagination, it changes the atmosphere of your entire inner town. The other factions continue to reappear as if under siege, yet the moment you dwell in the awareness that you are already whole, you revise every belief, every feeling, until the inner war subsides. Obedience, faithfulness, and trust arise as natural expressions of your new state, and Shalom flows as a calm, confident action in life. The battlefield dissolves into homecoming; your outer world follows the inner treaty into peace.