The Inner Joyful Noise

Neville's Inner Vision

To utter 'Make a joyful noise unto the LORD' is not a command to perform for an outside deity; it is a directive to awaken to a joyous condition of consciousness. The LORD you address is the I AM that you are, the unfailing awareness within which all experience arises. When you declare joy, you are not petitioning God to come into your life; you are choosing to align with a reality that is already present in your own mind. The lands—the many states of feeling and belief you carry—respond to the frequency you set by your inner note. If you persist in sorrow or doubt, that inner chorus will echo those tones; if you choose joy, the inner landscape rearranges itself to harmonize with that note. Imagination is not a trick but the instrument by which you awaken to truth. By imagining yourself as joyful, you become the very joy you seek, and your world reflects your inner hymn. Your praise is thus a posture of consciousness, a revision you make of what you accept as real. Continue and the outer day will rise to meet the inner sound you have chosen.