Inner Mercy for God's Name

Neville's Inner Vision

Daniel’s cry is not for external favors but for a shift in consciousness. The desolation and the city named by God are inner symbols: the ruin within and the life that can be restored when the I AM is acknowledged. To incline the ear is to tune your inner attention to the divine presence, and to behold is to become aware of possibilities beyond the current sense of lack. When he says we ask for thy mercies rather than our righteousnesses, he teaches you to pause self-judgment and rest in the merciful nature of the I AM, which answers from within. Forgiveness and reconciliation begin as you revise the memory of separation and settle into a felt reality of unity with the divine. The phrase thy city and thy people are called by thy name points to covenant loyalty—maintaining that inner relationship as the organizing principle of life. If you dwell in the consciousness that you are the I AM, the state you seek is already present; you simply awaken to it in the now.