Inner Hooks and Deliverance

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that the I in you is the one who bends the will of the imagined armies. Ezekiel's I will turn thee back is your inner turning of attention away from a threatened outcome toward a steadier state of consciousness. The hooks in thy jaws symbolize attachments—habits of thought and fear that tug you toward limitation. The great company with bucklers and shields and swords is the conglomerate of beliefs, plans, and defenses you have accumulated in your mind as proof of impossibility. Yet God declares He will bring them forth, not to attack you, but to reveal that you have inner command, and that all things are molded by your inner state. When you stop identifying with the fear and assume the true state of I AM, you redirect the process: the inner foe is turned back, your own attention leads the march, and your inner army—imagination, faith, compassion—stands armored for use at your command. The divine deployment is the practical realization that by a simple revision of your state, you disarm the imagined invasion and awaken to wholeness.