Inner Laws Of Romans 7:21-23

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Romans 7, you glimpse two laws at war inside the self. The first is the law of God, latent in the inward man, which delights in alignment with truth and grace. The second is a law of the flesh, a habit of the body that resists your decision to do good and seeks to bind you to old patterns. In Neville's terms, these are two states of consciousness, not two distant captors. The moment you identify with the inward man—the I AM that feels and knows the higher law—you shift from moral struggle to inner alignment. The 'evil' that appears when you would do good is simply the residual activity of the lower law, not a real you. By remaining faithful to the inner law, you refuse to identify with the lower reaction and you revise the scene from the standpoint of the I AM. The mind's battleground dissolves when you stop trying to fix the body and instead assume the complete reality of your ideal, imagining yourself already free and obedient to the law of God within. Your job is not external obedience but inner acceptance of the higher law.