Inner Covenant of Vows

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the vow as an inner decision, not a contract written to the outside world, but a conviction you settle within. Israel's statement, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities, is really a moment of imaginative assumption: they declare that their outcome depends on a certain change in their inner climate—the sense of separation from their enemies and the confidence that their 'deliverer' is the I AM within. When you interpret it as Neville would, you hear: the I AM, your own awareness, is already the power through which you are delivering the people of your own mind from fear and limitation. The vow is the act of switching allegiance from lack to fullness, from the defense of old patterns to the claim of a new kingdom within. The cities correspond to habitual mental constructs; to destroy them is to release old identifications. The moment you vow thus, you activate an inner movement toward salvation and redemptive action in consciousness.