Fear Toward the Inner Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

David’s fear in 2 Samuel 6:9 points to a deeper inner drama: the sense of separateness from the divine. In Neville’s terms, the ark represents the inner presence—the I AM—that already dwells within your consciousness. The fear reveals a belief that the holy presence is distant or withheld. To make the ark come to you, you must revise that belief by assuming and feeling the truth of immediate nearness. Begin with the awareness that the I AM is the very consciousness that experiences now; invite the ark into your life by treating its arrival as a present fact, not a distant event. Worship becomes not ritual externals but the steady acknowledgment of oneness with the divine presence. Holiness is your readiness to align with your true nature, not a separation to be guarded. When you cease trying to obtain God and instead realize that God already is, the ark enters your home, your work, and your body as a lived, felt reality. Fear dissolves in the recognition that you are the I AM becoming aware of itself.