Inner Petition, Covenant Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe how Nehemiah’s outward gesture is but a symbol of an inward posture. You are the I AM of your experience, and your awakening begins when you hear distress and choose to return to the God of your heaven—the highest awareness within. The 'great and terrible God' is the lawfulness and awe of your own consciousness, the power that keeps covenant with your love and fidelity to inner commandments. When he says that covenant and mercy belong to those who love him and observe his commandments, he is naming a universal inner principle: fidelity to your own inner law yields mercy in experience. The tears, the fasting, the prayer are all methods of turning attention away from surface conditions and into the throne room of awareness. In that chamber of mercy you realize that your circumstances respond to your state, not to chance. The reading invites you to revise your state by assuming you are already the beloved of this inner covenant, that mercy is your natural atmosphere when you remain faithful to your inner commandments. Your world will reflect this fidelity as you dwell in this consciousness.