Weeping, Binding, Providence

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Genesis 42:24 as a map of the inner man. The ruler who 'turned himself about' and wept is your awareness stepping aside from a stale story, letting the feeling of life flow through it. The weeping is not sentiment; it is the release of a held belief that kept you fixated on judgment. When he 'returned to them again, and communed with them,' that is the alignment of your speech and imagination with the new state: you converse with the facts of your life from the truth of I AM, not from lack. Taking Simeon and binding him before their eyes is less a deed done to another than the stabilizing of a new pattern of causation within your psyche: a belief you once held about scarcity or separation is now kept in custody in the light of a higher justice. Providence operates as an inner law: as you hold to compassion and righteous discernment, the external scene rearranges itself to reflect that state. Your function is to dwell in the awareness that is both judge and mercy, and to let the new state prove itself through the next encounter.