Inner Moab, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us reinterpret these lines as a map of consciousness. The Moab of the verse is not a distant nation but a fixed attitude in the mind—doubt, fear, scarcity. The cries of Heshbon and Elealeh are inner sounds that announce a belief system not aligned with the I AM. The marching soldiers represent the strenuous ego efforts to force outcomes from a sense of lack; their grievous life is the penalty exacted by attachment to outcomes. My heart crying for Moab is my own call to awaken to the truth that 'Moab' exists only when I identify with limitation. The path up Luhith with weeping is the ascent of an old habit, a ritual of lament that keeps me bound to a desert dream. Nimrim's waters desolate expresses the dryness of imagination when imagination forgets its source within. Yet the verse invites no despair but a turning of the gaze to the living I AM, which nourishes every interior landscape and revives the soil. When I acknowledge that I am that awareness, the dry places yield, the grass returns, and abundance is restored as a natural expression of consciousness.