Cleave to the LORD Now

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the LORD in Joshua is not a distant commandments-giver but the I AM within you, the steady flame of awareness that you are already one with all-sufficiency. Cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day becomes a statement about the state you have cultivated in consciousness. To cleave is to hold to a particular feeling of reality in spite of outward appearances. If you have lived in trust, fidelity, and covenant-love up to now, you are not asking for faith; you are declaring that faith has become your atmosphere. In Neville's terms, you are identifying with the realized man or woman who is already united with God in the inner room. The events of the outer day respond to the inner assumption you persist in; the outer world will reflect the inner assurance that you have not abandoned your sacred alignment. Therefore, the call is not to perform more, but to refresh the sense of oneness, to remain conscious of your indwelling source, and to feel that you and God are one, here and now.