Inner Shield of God's Word

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner man is the I AM that refuses to be haunted by vain thoughts. To hate vain thoughts and to love the law is to align consciously with the built-in discipline of mind. When the verse says Thou art my hiding place and my shield, remember that the hiding place is not a place outside you but a state of awareness in which you trust the Word that governs your life. I hope in thy word becomes I place my entire confidence in the inner Word, and so life flows from that faith. Depart from me, ye evildoers means I withdraw attention from distracting images and false mixes of belief by keeping the commandments of God in mind. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope, translates to I am sustained by the truth I choose and I am never ashamed of what I know to be true. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe expresses the law of support within, while the world’s deceit falls away when I stand in the light of thy statutes.