Inner Moab, Hidden Riches

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Isaiah’s Moab not as a nation, but as a state of consciousness—your own sense of lack and attachment. The verse says the abundance they have laid up will be carried away to the brook of the willows; this is your mind’s habit of clinging to riches, notions, and security. The cry that goes round Moab’s borders is the restless confirmatory hum of fear when you identify with insecurity. The border towns, Eglaim and Beerelim, symbolize the outer conversations and judgments that echo in your psyche when you feel estranged from your inner kingdom. Yet the true wealth remains not in what is stored, but in the consciousness that stores it. When you revise your sense of self to the I AM that you are—awareness itself—you discover that what seems to disappear is simply shifting vibration in your interior landscape. The exile is your momentary forgetfulness of your unity with God; the return is the return to inner immediacy, to the brook within you where abundance flows as awareness, not as possession. Your task is to accept the loss as a movement of mind toward greater clarity, and to rest in the conviction that inner wealth endures beyond appearances.