Return to the Inner LORD

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Hosea 6:1 as a description of your inner state. The torn and smitten are not about outward events but about a consciousness that has wandered from its Source. To 'return unto the LORD' is to turn attention back to the I AM, to the living awareness you really are. The Lord here is your own God-dream, your inner Father, whose mercy unfolds as you refuse to identify with the pain of separation. When you acknowledge your current sense of disruption, you invite healing by alignment: the tearing is the old energy releasing, the smiting is the old thought pattern collapsing, and the binding up is the renewal of your being in harmony with the divine idea within you. In Neville's terms, imagining destroys the distance between you and your desire; the healing follows as you feel the wished-for state already accomplished. This is not about penance but about remembrance—remembering that you never left your Source, only forgot to “know” it. The verse invites an act of conscious reconciliation, a shift from lack to fullness by the act of consciousness itself.