Fear Before Divine Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

Thunder and smoke are not distant weather but the waking drama of consciousness before the I AM. The people retreat because direct contact with pure awareness would upend their established self-image; they want Moses to speak for them. Yet God has come to prove you, to place fear before your faces so you may sin not—not as punishment, but as inspection that awakens discipline. In Neville’s terms, fear is energy that signals you stand on the threshold of a higher state. If you cling to the old self, you stay afar; if you choose to inhabit the inner I AM, you draw near and the thick darkness becomes the womb of revelation. Imagination creates reality; by assuming the feeling of the presence now, you awaken the inner guide who speaks through you. You are not distant from God; you are your own awareness becoming fully alive. The moment you revise your state, the 'mountain smoking' subsides into sacred quiet, and life rearranges itself to reflect your newly imagined truth.