Grapes in the Wilderness Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Forget a tale about nations and kings; feel that Hosea is presenting the inner weather of your own mind. Gibeah stands for a moment when you yield to fear or self-importance and call it life, a splitting away from your true I AM. Instead of worshiping the living God in you, you bow to Baalpeor-like cravings—desire, approval, or image—until you have separated yourself from the one true consciousness that remembers you as whole. The memory of iniquity is your mind rehearsing old pictures, but consciousness cannot be altered by repeating them; it is only altered when you reverse your attention and give it to the I AM that never changes. The grapes in the wilderness symbolize the moments when your inner field bears fruit only when you acknowledge your present spiritual state, not when you chase after substitutes; the abominations are merely the loves you cling to, which you can relinquish by turning toward the inward light. When you accept that your present awareness is the ruler of all you see, you release the past and awaken to an unshakable peace.