Inner Chastisement And Gathering

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that Hosea's 'desire to chastise' is not punishment coming from without, but the inward movement of consciousness revealing itself. The God you meet here is the I AM within you, and the phrase 'bind themselves in their two furrows' points to two fixed lines of thought you have claimed as reality—perhaps fear and lack, or habit and doubt. When you identify with these furrows, a chorus of thoughts, feelings, and circumstances tends to assemble as if to oppose you. Yet this is simply the law of consciousness at work: you are the state you inhabit. The 'chastisement' is the gentle correction that returns you to a single, unbroken awareness of yourself as the I AM. To experience this as grace, revise your sense of self from fragmentation to unity, from dependency to sovereign presence. If you assume the end of the matter is already yours, the outer world rearranges itself to mirror the inner state, and the gathered opposition dissolves into harmony.