Inner Longevity Of Reverence

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that 'the fear of the LORD' is not trembling before a distant deity, but the calm, unwavering awareness of the I AM that you are. When you live from that inner recognition, days expand because your inner weather becomes vitality: you do not chase health; you acknowledge it as your natural state. The 'wicked'—the dream of separation, doubt, and strife—shorten years by whittling away at your life-force through fear and complaint. Providence is not external fortune but the orderly response of your own consciousness to its assumptions. If you assume the presence of life, energy, and long days, you invite the conditions that realize them. Obedience and Faithfulness, in Neville's sense, mean staying loyal to the truth you have settled upon in your imagination: the I AM is your life, your power, your protection. Truth and Faithfulness are one; to doubt is to betray the inner witness. So practice a disciplined state that regards yourself as already healthy, already guided, already living in long, radiant days within the kingdom of your consciousness.