The Inner Fruit of Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse you are not reading about distant persons; you are being invited to wake to your own state of consciousness. Hating knowledge and despising counsel are inner refusals to the I AM, the awareness you already are. When you deny the inner promptings, you eat the fruit of your own way—the natural outcome of thoughts you have rehearsed in mind. The 'turning away of the simple' is the habit of choosing the familiar over truth, and that habit destroys by its own results. The 'prosperity of fools' is the outward sign of inner misalignment. But those who hearken unto me, who align with the inner counsel, shall dwell safely and be quiet from fear of evil, not by external protection but by a revised state of being. Prosperity comes to the heart tuned to wisdom and yielding to its direction. This is not punishment; it is the corrective law of consciousness: change your inner posture, and your experiences change in kind.