Hosea 3:1-3 Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

To the aware reader, this scene is not about a physical marriage but the state of your own consciousness. The LORD is the I AM, and the woman is a beloved state within you that has wandered into the appearances of separation—idols of desire and bottles of distraction. You may feel the ache of distance, yet the impulse to return is the divine longing of God toward the Israel within. The act of buying her back with silver and barley is the price consciousness must meet to awaken steady presence. Your attention concentrates wealth in the one perfect relation: you are already loved, already kept by the I AM. When the command says abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, let that be a revision of your inner sentence: you refuse to dwell in the dream of lack or alternate loyalties. In return, God pledges faithful companionship: you become the one with yourself again, and the inner covenant is renewed through you as you rest in the mindful awareness of the I AM.