Inner Covenant of Judges 20:12-14

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the tribes of Israel as facets of your own consciousness, and Gibeah as a stubborn habit that keeps a troubling pattern alive in your mind. The question, 'What wickedness is this?' is your inner alarm at thoughts that threaten your covenant with the I AM. Delivering the men of Belial becomes a practice of addressing the belief in wrongdoing within you by withdrawing attention from it and choosing alignment with the higher law of your being. The command to 'put away evil from Israel' is your decisive act to clean the field of awareness, to remove a persistent image that does not belong in the sacred order of your mind. When the children of Benjamin refuse the voice of their brethren, you feel resistance in the part of you that clings to old identity—an inner Benjamin that would defend the habit and march off to battle with the old story. Yet the conflict is not fought with weapons but with the conscious assertion that you are the I AM, and that true justice and covenant loyalty require you to let go the belief in separation. As you affirm that you already stand righteous, the inner factions reconcile and the 'battle' dissolves into quiet harmony.