The Inner Hand of Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the Philistines are the fears, doubts, and self-will pressing upon your sense of security. The Cherethims are the lingering stories of separation that cling to the edge of awareness—the last scraps of the old sea coast you still call outside you. When God says He will stretch out His hand, He is not punishing from without; He is the I AM awakening your consciousness to act. The act of cutting off and destroying is the mental clearing of those thoughts, the end of the belief that you are divided from your good. The Kingdom of God is not a distant country; it is your inner state perfected, the righteousness and justice that arise when the mind yields to the truth that you are the one consciousness, that imagination creates reality. The Judgment here is alignment with truth, not punishment; it is your revision of self-concept so that fear and lack can no longer govern you. Remember: prophecy and promise become present when you dwell in the I AM, imagining and feeling the fulfillment now.