Inner Word Settles All

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awake reader, the 'word' is not a mere text but a fixed inner law you acknowledge with the I AM. When Psalms says 'for ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven,' you realize there is a timeless principle within you that does not falter with circumstance. The earth endures because your inner ordinance has authority; the outer world is its servant. 'They continue this day according to thine ordinances' becomes your days proceeding from a law you know and obey inwardly. 'Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction' reveals that delight in the law is life, a reviving practice that softens pain by alignment. 'I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me' becomes a reminder that such precepts awaken energy when believed. 'I am thine, save me' affirms union with the I AM; 'the wicked have waited for me to destroy me' is resistance you refuse by turning toward thy testimonies. 'I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad' declares the universal reach of this inner law. You stand within a single, ever-present law.