Entering the Inner Promised Land

Neville's Inner Vision

Judge the passage as a mirror of your inner life. The statement As truly as I live is the I AM speaking to your thoughts. The wilderness is a state of doubt, a habit of mind that starves imagination. When you murmur against your desire, you are speaking from a consciousness that doubts its own power. The decree you shall not enter expresses the natural result of dwelling in fear rather than faith. Yet Caleb and Joshua stand within you as steadfast faculties that hold the vision and see the land inwardly before it appears outwardly. Your life will follow the state you accept as real, so the invitation is to switch allegiance from the outward scene to the inner vision. Speak and act from the assumption that the land is already yours, not as a future event but as present in your consciousness, and the outer journey will reflect that inner certainty.