Inner Lamp for the Path

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the word is not a distant text but the living order of your consciousness. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path: the light reveals the next thought or decision you must make. When you say, I have sworn to perform it, you are not making a promise to a deity apart from you; you are aligning your inner state with the decree you choose to inhabit. The affliction the psalmist mentions becomes the friction that quickens your awareness to return to the Word. Quickening means life pours into your entire system as you dwell in the assumption that the Word governs now. Offerings of your mouth correspond to the declarations you consistently permit to shape your reality. Your soul is in your hand—attention, choice, imagination—in this sense, you are not a victim, but the operator of your inner law. The snares of doubt cannot circumvent the law when you remain faithful to the inner precepts. The heritage is the joyous alignment of heart and mind; the heart inclined toward statutes becomes your forever mode of being.