Inner Pestilence and Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Neville's reading: Amos 4:10-11 speaks in outward terms but reveals inner dynamics of consciousness. The pestilence, the sword, and the overthrow are not external facts but inner movements indicating I have forgotten the I AM. When I witness destruction without turning, I see myself as separate from God, clinging to a false sense of self. The 'firebrand plucked from the burning' names the ego resisting return to the living awareness. God is not outside; God is the I AM within my own consciousness, the measure by which I judge all events. To repent is to revise the state I occupy, to assume a new awareness of being cared for by the I AM, and to treat every outward sign as guidance back toward wholeness. The overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah becomes the overthrow of old beliefs, a purification of faith by turning my attention to the flame of consciousness that cannot be burned away.