Inner Wealth Over Pleasure

Neville's Inner Vision

Proverbs 21:17 teaches that the man who loves pleasure ends in poverty, yet in the theater of the inner life, 'pleasure' is but a symbol for a habit of seeking to satisfy the senses. Wealth does not reside in wine or oil or in some outside provision; it is a state of consciousness—an I AM that governs your atmosphere. When I, the I AM, align with fullness, I am not chasing pleasures but settling into a constant sense of sufficiency. The love of taste becomes a pointer toward an inner bank account, the balance of gratitude, trust, and disciplined desire. By choosing to love inward riches more than transient gratification, I invite provision to express as forms in my world. The inner image of a feast comes not to indulge but to certify that supply is present as my natural condition. Every judgment I render—about myself or life—recedes when I decide to live from the awareness that life is my awareness. Thus, the law of likeness works; I thin out the clamor of appetite and awaken to a steady reign of abundance from within.