Inner Pruning of Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse the boughs are inner beliefs and identifications, not timber. The Lord, the LORD of hosts, is the I AM presence within you, the stable awareness that trims away excess ego. When you cling to a high self—status, force, external advantage—these inner states are interpreted as the 'high ones of stature' that must be hewn down. The terror is the waking shock of realization that you are not your pride, you are the awareness that enforces order in consciousness. The pruning restores humility as the natural condition of true being, and the outer world will mirror the inward revision when imagination aligns with this truth. If you identify with separation or superiority, you will experience a dramatic trimming; if you stand in I AM as your reality, the correction becomes a gentle return to wholeness. Practicing this inward judgment makes your reality conform to the new consciousness you choose to inhabit.