Return to the Lord: Inner Restoration

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Hosea, the Lord is the I AM you awaken to as you turn away from outcomes and trouble. The tearing, the smiting, the healing—these are not outside judgments but inner movements of your own consciousness. When you say, Come, let us return, you are declaring a new alignment with awareness itself, a decision to repair the inner covenant by turning to mercy rather than ritual. The two days and the third day speak to cycles of attention: the first two days are your awakening, the third is the rise of a life-consciousness that can stand in the Lord’s sight. Ephraim and Judah symbolize fragments of self whose goodness fades like morning cloud and dew; the true invitation is to allow your judgments, like light, to illuminate and refine. Mercy is desired because mercy is your native state; knowledge of God surpasses form and offering. When you claim this return, you do not beg for favor—you assume it; you become it; you live as the daylight, the rain, the morning’s going forth. Your inner priestly functions are purified by the simple act of feeling the truth of oneness.