The Inner Covenant of Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

All verses are made by imagination, and this line is no exception. When the Psalm speaks of one who 'put forth his hands against those at peace,' it points to a state of consciousness that has forgotten its own covenant with peace. 'He' is not another person apart from you, but a belief or habit within you that judges peace as weakness and breaks its own covenant with the beloved state of awareness—your true covenant with joy, abundance, and right relations. But the I AM—the true you, the abiding awareness—never breaks covenant. If you are aware of conflict with a 'peaceful' state, revise your assumption: you are already in the covenant; peace is your natural condition and will not be broken by any appearance. This breach is a warning to shift from consciousness of lack to the feeling that the covenant stands. Your task is to return to the inner agreement, to declare, in your imagination, that the I AM maintains its peace within you, and to live from that reality.