Inner Covenant of Life and Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the 'covenant' is not a deal handed to God but a state of consciousness lived within. Malachi is urging you to recognize that life and peace are the natural conditions available when your attention is fixed on the I AM and approached with reverent awe. 'My covenant was with him of life and peace' becomes: I am aligned with the stream of life and inner harmony as soon as I acknowledge the I AM as the source of all. 'I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name' translates as: your reverent fear—your awe, trust, and settled attention on the God-identity within—permits these gifts to appear. The 'fear' is not trembling but consecrated attention that precedes and compels the manifestation of life and peace. When you privately affirm, 'I am life; I am peace,' you are not begging but acknowledging what you already are in the divine mind. The moment you hold to that inner identity, your outer circumstances rearrange to reflect it.