The Inner Cut of Israel

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses speak, not of distant kings, but of your inner state. The LORD began to cut Israel short: your awareness trims away excess belief, forcing you to notice what really animates your life. Hazael’s smiting is the sting of doubt pressing against the edge of your fixed identities—the parts of you you have believed separated from the Whole. The lands eastward—Gad, Reuben, Manasseh—are the outlying regions of your mind where old stories hold in place your sense of lack or danger. When you look inward, you see that such a contraction is a signpost, not a sentence: it is the natural discipline by which consciousness returns to its center, the I AM that you are. Providence is not distant; it is the very movement of awareness reordering itself to fit a larger image of life. By choosing to imagine yourself as the I AM, you can experience the outward limits as mere appearances dissolving, making room for a fuller life that unfolds from within.