Inner Census, Divine Alignment

Neville's Inner Vision

In this line, the outer event—the I AM’s displeasure and the smiting—functions as a symbol of an inner condition. God is not a distant judge, but the I AM within you aware of what you truly accept as real. The 'thing' that displeased can be understood as a habitual state of separation, measured by census-taking of appearances rather than the unity of Life. When you operate from fear or a sense of lack, you are imagining a world apart from the covenant; you are, in effect, smiting Israel, your own inner people, by dwelling in limitation. The remedy is simple: return to the awareness that you are always within the divine, that the I AM is your essential self, and that obedience is not to a law outside you but to alignment with your true nature. As you revise the mental assumption, imagining, 'I am one with God, I live by the covenant of inexhaustible supply and righteousness,' the outer consequence dissolves. The plague becomes a call to re-choose your consciousness. Remember: you are the consciousness that assigns meaning; the external becomes the echo of your inner state.