Inner Mercy Negotiation

Neville's Inner Vision

Abraham's exchange is not a geographical bargaining with a distant judge; it is your inner I AM testing the faith that mercy reigns in every circumstance. In Neville's terms, the LORD represents your awareness—the I AM that does not condemn but contemplates possibilities. The numbers—thirty, twenty, ten—are not limits but inner thresholds of belief about grace. As you feel the scene, you discover that the higher numbers are simply more convincing states, and the lowering of the threshold reveals how quickly you can slide into mercy when you stop arguing with reality and begin arguing with imagination. The true miracle is not Sodom spared by luck, but your own mind choosing the state of mercy until it becomes your lived texture. When you insist that the situation be different, you are practicing a new mental posture: you are choosing favor, not verdict. The moment you settle in the feeling of grace, your inner landscape shifts; the external world then follows, reflecting the conviction that judgment yields to compassion, and that grace is the default state of being.