Choosing the LORD Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Take this text as a map of your inner life. The people’s vow to serve the LORD mirrors your decision in consciousness to align with the one presence you call God. The 'strange gods among you' are not stones but habits, beliefs, and attachments that pretend to define you. When Joshua says, 'ye are witnesses against yourselves,' he is naming the simple truth: once you assent in mind, you have already lived the choice in your inner theater, and the outer scene will follow. To incline your heart to the LORD is to turn your entire attention from many loyalties to the singular I AM—the awareness that you are. The vow 'The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey' is the declaration of inner sovereignty: you obey the inner guidance you identify with. The covenant is inner, a practical revision of your mental landscape until every competing state is dissolved. If you truly consent within, the outer world yields in gentleness to the authority of that inner alignment, and life begins to echo the obedience you have already chosen.