Inner Covenant of Joshua

Neville's Inner Vision

Joshua 23:12-13 speaks of the danger of returning to the old alliances of the nations that remain in your land. In Neville's psychology, the outer threat mirrors an inner resistance. The 'remnant' are the persistent images, habits, and beliefs you entertain; 'going in unto them' and 'they to you' is yielding attention to them, making them real forces in your life. 'Know for a certainty' that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you means that, as long as you tolerate them in your state of consciousness, you block the clearing of your inner terrain. They become snares, traps, and thorns in your sight, and you will fail to inhabit the good land you imagine. The cure is conscious abandonment of those images—replace them with the certainty that your I AM is the sole governor of your inner world. Enter the feeling that the land is already cleansed, the old fears dissolved, and the new harmony established by your present fidelity to the I AM. Practice: assume the end; revise each lingering image by declaring, ‘I AM the I AM; these old images have no power over me.’