Diligence Before Kings

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe not a man, but a state of consciousness named Diligence. When you consistently attend to your work with clear, focused feeling, you awaken a power that rises in imagination and align with your inner kingship. The 'standing before kings' is the inner recognition that you are the I AM, crowned by faithful effort, not condemned to mean company. Diligence is not the external grind but the inner turning of attention toward the good you intend to realize; it is imagining the result as already done and feeling it as real. Persisting, you align with the royalty of your true nature, and your inner court becomes your outer field of action. The verse promises that steady, honest effort creates opportunity; if you maintain the assumption that you are the kind of person who does excellent work, circumstances bend toward you. The world responds to the tone you hold in consciousness when you choose to dwell there.