Hosea 2:3-5 Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel’s drama in Hosea 2:3–5 is the mirror of your own mistaken self-creation. The I am that you call God is the only actuality; when you mistake yourself for a body of needs, you imagine a wilderness of lack and search for lovers in outer things. The stripping and nakedness are not punishment but the moment of awakening: you discover that what you thought nourished you—the bread, water, wool, oil—comes not from them, but from your inner awareness. The children of whoredoms are the habits born of craving and dependence; the mother who hath played the harlot is your concept of self that has traded the divine Father for counterfeit supports. In truth, you have wandered after sensations of security, and thus you suffer thirst. The remedy is simple: turn from the outward source and return to the I AM within, where provision is constant. When you apprehend that I AM, you cease blaming outer lovers and you begin living as the authority and the supply itself. Your inner state reforms your outward experience; the wasteland becomes a garden of perception.