Harvest Within: The Inner LORD

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Hosea's lines, I hear the I AM speaking as your own awareness. Ephraim—the taught heifer—represents a state of mind that wants to work, to grind and prove itself through deeds. Yet the text says, I passed over and now I will make Ephraim ride; not by force, but by awakening the rider in you—the consciousness that simply knows. To sow in righteousness is to plant thoughts aligned with your true nature; to reap in mercy is to receive the fruit of compassionate seeing toward yourself and others. Break up the fallow ground means to till the stubborn beliefs, the resistant habits, until you have bare, receptive soil ready for the rain. The invitation—seek the LORD until He comes and rains righteousness—becomes an invitation to dwell in the present act of awareness: you are the one who asks, you are the one who answers, you are the rain and the soil. When you revise your inner state from lack to sufficiency, the long-desired rain falls and your life manifests as righteousness flowing in mercy.