Covenant Faith Under Trials

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines teach that the facts of life in the outer world do not determine the truth of the inner man. The psalmist names a thing that has happened, but refuses to let the outer circumstance redefine who he is. In Neville’s language, this is a statement of a fixed state of consciousness: the I AM remains the covenant, and the covenant remains intact regardless of what appears. 'All this is come upon us' signals the appearance of trial, but 'yet have we not forgotten Thee' declares unwavering allegiance to the inner God-State. 'Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy way' is the discipline of remaining aligned with the imagined end, despite friction. If you practice the assumption that you are already in harmony with the I AM, the very momentum of the inner faith will alter your experience. The key is to revise every sense of loss as a change in perception, not in truth, and to feel the fidelity of your inner covenant until it registers as reality in the body and world.