The Inner Kingdom (Romans 14:17)

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness there is a kingdom, not a banquet of meats or laws, but the alignment of being with the truth of your I AM. The verse tells you to shift from externals to an inner government: righteousness as right relation to God and all life; peace that calms the storm of thought; joy that radiates from the Holy Ghost, that ever-present awareness. The Holy Spirit is not a distant power but your own awakened sense of Self. When you stop measuring life by what you eat or how you prove yourself, you prove yourself by the steadiness of your inner state. In Neville's terms, you do not seek the kingdom externally; you assume the state of the kingdom internally and let it manifest outwardly as conditions that confirm your new consciousness. The 'not meat and drink' becomes a turning from lack toward sufficiency, from rule-bound behavior to freedom in God. By living in the feeling of righteousness, peace, and joy, you are already within the Kingdom, made visible by the harmony that follows your inner alignment.