Quicken Me By Thy Word

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 119:25-32 reads not a record of history but a state of mind. Dust is the old identification with limitation; the cry 'quicken thou me according to thy word' is the shift from outward appearance to inward acknowledgment that I AM is the law that quickens my life. When I say 'I have declared my ways,' I am simply becoming aware of my inner choices and inviting the truth of the law to correct my understanding. 'Teach me thy statutes' becomes an inner directive: align thought with the immutable orders of consciousness, so that my talk mirrors the wondrous works I affirm. 'My soul melteth for heaviness' yields to the strength that comes from feeding on the word; the burden dissolves as belief in limitation is replaced with conviction of truth. 'Remove from me the way of lying' is the revision of false images about myself; 'the way of truth' I have chosen and I will run the way of thy commandments when my heart is enlarged. Thus, mastery is not outward effort but the quiet expansion of imagination into living obedience.