Inner Strength in Adversity

Neville's Inner Vision

To read this is to watch the inner weather of a single consciousness. The outer calamities— the weeping, the capture of wives, the threat of stoning—are not mere facts but invitations to the inner drama of your awareness. David’s 'LORD his God' is not a distant deity but the I AM within you, the constant presence that does not abandon the one who calls. Encouraging himself in the LORD is an act of shifting from identification with lack and fear to alignment with an eternal, unshakeable state. It is the turn from the crowd’s distress to the solitary, serene assurance that you are more than your circumstances. You can practice this now: acknowledge the pain, then lift your attention to the inner Lord, the unchanged awareness that makes 'well-being' your natural condition. By assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you reframe the scene from collapse to confidence. The moment you do, the outer story begins to respond to your inner posture, and endurance becomes your natural stance, not a victory over others but a victory over your own limiting sense of self.