Sowing Mercy Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true identity is not a distant event but an inner state. Hosea 2:23 speaks of sowing the beloved parts of yourself into the earth of your consciousness, where mercy can take root. When you say I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy, you are rehearsing the inner decision to grant forgiveness to every fragment you previously judged. The phrase I will sow her unto me in the earth is an act of spiritual psychology: the self plants the entire being into the living soil of awareness, and what was separated from you is now included as part of you. And when it says to them which were not my people, Thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God, it is the inward conversion of perception: the I AM of you recognizes each thought and feeling as a thread in the same divine fabric. The inner soil becomes fertile as you persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, granting grace to the unworthy until the boundary between 'God' and 'I' dissolves.