Inner Blessing Through Reverent Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that the 'LORD' spoken of in this verse is not an external deity, but the I AM within you—your ever-present awareness. When you 'fear' the LORD, you cultivate a reverence for the law of your own being, a stance of attentive, unwavering awareness to the inner pattern that governs thought, feeling, and action. To 'delight greatly in his commandments' is to fall in love with the inner commandments—the immutable precepts of right thinking, integrity, consistency, and faithfulness that govern your life from the inside out. The blessing described is not a distant reward but a visible alignment of your world with your inner state. As you persist in this inner discipline, you no longer seek approval from without; you become the very embodiment of law, and your experiences reflect your settled conviction. The more you assume this order as already present, the more the outer becomes orderly. Therefore the invitation is to practice a new self-portrait: one who fears the I AM and takes pleasure in obeying its true commands.