Inner Blessings, Outer Echoes

Neville's Inner Vision

Your Hosea 2:8-13 speaks to a single inner drama: you have not known that all corn, wine, oil, and gold are poured into your life by the I AM, your own Awareness. When you mistake the outer pleasures as the source, you prepare for Baal and for the signposts of life that seem to feed you, and so the inner bounty is spent on surface adornments that cover your nakedness. God withdraws not as punishment but as a turning of the inner wheel, revealing the lewdness of relying on the lovers of habit. The moment you realize that the blessing and the loss are nothing but shifts in your state of consciousness, you may discover the true vine and fig tree are within your own being, and you can reorient your affection back to the one Source. In that return, your mirth and feast days are reset not by decree from without, but by a revised inner assumption: I am the source of all I enjoy; my supply is constant and I can reinstate the garden by a single act of inner awareness.