Inner Sift of Amos 9:9

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the language of Amos, the house of Israel is not a place but a state of consciousness. The command to sift among the nations is your inner directive to separate appearance from truth, to let every thought and feeling be weighed in the sieve of awareness. As you live in your imagination, you discover that the corn—your real self—passes through the currents of circumstance without a grain dropping to idle earth. The sieve does not ruin you; it preserves you, a remnant that cannot be diminished by outer events when you know the I AM that you are. The “nations” are the many scenes of life, the shifts and changes that test your sense of self. The process is belief-editing: what you hold as true rises, what is not true falls away, yet nothing essential falls into oblivion because the divine grain is indestructible. See the grains as your thoughts about yourself; imagine the true you, intact, kept by a steady awareness that is always present, always one with God.