Mercy Over Sacrifice: Inner Light

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel’s good qualities and zeal in the text are not externals to be judged, but inner states that flicker like a morning cloud. In Neville’s lens, God is the I AM—your continuous awareness—and the words of the prophets are the inner sentences that wake you to truth. The light spoken as your judgments is a bright reveal of your inner discernment, not a whip to punish. The divine preference for mercy over sacrifice means that your true religion is the heart’s response when you recognize that mercy and knowledge of God are already within you. When you imagine yourself as already merciful and consciously knowing God, you revise the self from a mere doer of rites to a living consciousness that loves and understands. The outer acts then align with truth, and the dew of seeming righteousness dissolves into the day of immediate awareness. The whole passage invites you to quit chasing rituals and to rest in the inner relationship—your state of mercy, your awareness of God, your present I AM—and watch life reflect that truth as light, accuracy, and compassionate action.