Lay Up My Commandments Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the verse not as external precepts but as an inner statute written on the mind. 'Keep my words' means you refuse to forget the truth you consented to; 'lay up my commandments with thee' means you store these truths in the treasury of your consciousness, where they govern every impression and decision. The speaker, the Father, is your own I AM—your state of awareness that does the keeping. When you live in the knowing that you are the authority who remembers and honors these commandments, you alter your inner weather; you cease to react to appearances and align with the memory of divine law. This is not discipline imposed from without but a covenant you renew in the imagination. Obedience and faithfulness are simply the acts of returning to the awareness that the Word is permanent in you and through you. Wisdom grows as you repeatedly revise your self-talk to reflect that the commandments are not external rules but your innermost conditions. As you assume, you become the person who already lives by them, and the external scene follows suit.