Inner Grief, Covenant Faith in Hebrews 3:17

Neville's Inner Vision

Here is the inner Bible: the Israelites are not separate people but states of consciousness you entertain. The forty years of wandering is the long season you tolerate a disbelief, the mind attached to limitation rather than the promised rest. When the verse speaks of God grieving with them, it means your own awareness feels pain when you cling to an old cry of separation from the I AM. The carcases lying in the wilderness symbolize the dead beliefs—the discredited pictures you keep believing about yourself. In truth, your inner covenant is always at hand; obedience and faithfulness mean aligning with a single, unshaken assumption: I AM. To change, you revise the scene by assuming what you want as already real; feel the truth of your new state, not the ache of the old. As you dwell in that higher state, the wilderness dissolves, the old carcases disappear, and the promised rest becomes your everyday awareness. The 'forty years' ends when you cease feasting on doubt and feast on your certainty in God within you.