Presence Within Massah Meribah

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the wilderness, Massah and Meribah are not geographical stones but inner atmospheres. The Israelites’ chiding and their question, 'Is the LORD among us?' becomes a scene in your own consciousness: you asking whether the I AM, the Presence, is truly here as you move through a moment of difficulty. In Neville’s teaching, God is not a distant Being but the awareness you inhabit. When you doubt presence, you create a drama that looks for proof outside yourself. The moment of doubt is a signal to turn, to revise your assumption and feel the truth as real now: the LORD is within you, always. To reinterpret Exodus 17:7 is to notice how thoughts—voices of fear, impatience, and pleading—are simply trains of consciousness passing through your mind. Choose to answer with a different state: I AM, therefore I am present. In this act of inner identification, you transmute chiding into confidence, Meribah into a resting in God’s continual presence. The question becomes a doorway into the knowing that God is within, now.