Inner Voice of Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theater, the 'my people' are the states of your own consciousness. When you would not hearken to the voice, you are listening to the glittering lures of your own heart’s lust and following your private counsels. The voice in the psalm is not external judgment but your I AM, the immutable pattern of divine order already present in you. To hear and obey it is to realign with the inner law that governs all becoming. Rebellion and turning away from the inner voice are simply lingering imaginal scenes of separation; obedience is the decision to dwell in the state where that voice is faithfully followed, and life flows accordingly. The lament “Oh that my people had hearkened unto me” becomes a practical invitation: revise your inner narrative, assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and walk in the ways you already intend to live. When you inhabit that obedience as a state of consciousness, your outward world mirrors the harmony of the inner state, and regret loosens its grip.