Inner Covenant Thread of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Joshua 2:17-20 is a parable of the mind. The spies are your faculties, the city’s wall is your outer circumstance, and Rahab’s scarlet thread is a vivid symbol you place in your imagination to seal a new state. When you assent, you are swearing a covenant with the I AM within, a commitment to keep faith inside your own house. The window represents awareness looking at life from a new vantage point; the oath is your decision to dwell in that higher state and to keep all parts of your being there—the family included—in the innermost chamber of your mind. To “go out” into the street is to drop the thread and forget the new agreement, which would leave you vulnerable to old presumptions. The power is not in the thread’s color, but in your renewed feeling that the covenant is already fulfilled. Practice this: assume you are already the one protected by your own promise, and feel it as real, here and now.