Garden of I AM Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 3:8 presents a moment when the Presence moves through the garden, and the first pair, hearing the voice, turn away in fear and hide among the trees. This scene is not about distance in space but a language of consciousness: the sense 'I' has forgotten its only reality, God as I AM, and so the reaction is to withdraw from the inner light. The voice in the cool of the day is the inner call to awareness, not an external event. In Neville's terms, Adam and Eve believed themselves separate from their Creator, and hence imagine a world of separation, blame, and fear. But the moment you recognize the Presence as your own I AM, the garden opens, the hiding dissolves, and walking with God becomes your natural state. The text invites you to notice that hiding is a choice, a thought-designed fortress, and that you can revise it by turning toward the Presence, declaring unity, and feeling the reality of God here and now. When you assume the Presence and feel it real, the imagined distance collapses.