Joyful Rejoicing of the Upright

Neville's Inner Vision

Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous is the invitation to acknowledge the living I AM as your constant. When you identify with the I AM—the awareness that you are not a separate self but the center of conscious life—your heart spontaneously lifts into a music of gratitude and power. The word righteous is not a moral ledger but the alignment of your inner state with truth. To the awakened, praise is not ritual but the natural sentence of consciousness: praise is fitting for the upright because the upright exist as the steady flame of awareness that knows itself as God and man in one. In practical terms, you do not seek to praise from outside; you assume the feeling of being already celebrated, already whole, already in possession of all good. As you dwell in that assumption, your speech and your world rise to meet it. Your inner climate becomes the tempo of life, and events that reflect joy begin to unfold as if by your praise.