Inner Judgment Of Isaiah 27:7

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the question of smiting and slain becomes the question of your own inner state. The 'Hath he smitten him' asks you to observe your memory of punishment: do you imagine life mirrors your own harsh judgments, or do you discover a different law at work? In Neville’s sense, God is the I AM, the awareness that never condemns, but that imagines and proves what you believe. If you feel punished by others, examine the belief that you are separate from life, that you must suffer to be righteous. The inner law does not strike you from without; it translates your belief into circumstance. When you demand retribution, you create a self-justifying story that seems to slay by the hand of him you blame. Yet the moment you revise—"I am the I AM; I forgive; I am justified in grace"—you release the 'smiting' and the annihilation of the old self dissolves. The inner destination is one where the I AM perceives itself as both accuser and rescuer, and all scenes become clarified: you have chosen to see in others your own true state.