God Is Among You

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the hornet is not a literal insect but the tremor of thoughts and fears that guard old limits. The verse says the Lord will send the hornet among them until those who hide from you are destroyed; in the inner sense, that is the elimination of beliefs that pretend you are separate from your own I AM. The 'left and hide themselves' are those subconscious refusals that retreat when you claim a new vision. 'Thou shalt not be affrighted at them' is the discipline of consciousness—maintain the awareness that your I AM presence is stronger than any imagined threat. For the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible, and that 'terrible' is awe-filled power, not dread; it is the quiet, irresistible force of your own awakening. When you acknowledge that the LORD thy God is within, you operate from the throne of imagination rather than from fear, and you watch conditions respond to your consciousness, as if the inner presence commands outward change. The outer does not precede the inner; the I AM within makes it so.