Inner Comfort of the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through the Neville lens, this verse is not a distant command to a nation but a reawakening of your own awareness. 'Comfort ye' is the inner promise that your present state can be rearranged by the I AM—the immutable consciousness you truly are. The 'people' are your inner dispositions, habits, and memories; exile is the moment you believed you were separated from peace, and return is your decision to re-enter the awareness that never left you. When you acknowledge 'saith your God,' you affirm that God is not outside you but the very light by which you know yourself. Therefore, true comfort arises not from changing external circumstances but from adopting a new feeling of being: already at rest, already provided for, already whole. Begin with a simple assumption: I am comforted now. Hold that state through imagination, revising any thought of lack or distance until it yields to a quiet certainty. As you persist, outer events begin to echo the inward peace; the old ache softens, the mind settles, and a fresh sense of shalom—completeness—permeates your days. Imagination creates reality by the steady, loving attention you give to this new inner truth.