Inner Authority in Romans 13

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this passage reveals a psychological law: outward commands reflect the state of your inner governor. When you feel the urge to submit, you are really aligning with a higher I AM that rules your day. Conscience here is not fear but the inner perception that you live in harmony with divine order. The rulers and the law become symbolic ministers in your mind, attending continually to the same task—the maintenance of order in your world. If you imagine yourself free of inner conflict, you imagine yourself free of coercion, and you will experience life moving with a steady rhythm. The phrase for this cause pay ye tribute also points to tribute to the inner faculties that sustain your experience—attention, discernment, and discipline. The law is not force against you but alignment with the creative power within; when you act from conscience, you are cooperating with your own inner government, which God, in your awareness, has already established. Thus obedience becomes not servile fear but joyful alignment with your I AM.