Inner Comfort for the Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah invites you into the inner city of your being, where the true Jerusalem resides as your state of consciousness. In the Neville style, the comfort promised is not a distant award but the awakening of I AM awareness within you. The people are inner dispositions; the divine voice is your own I AM presence. When you hear that warfare is accomplished and iniquity pardoned, hear it as the moment when you stop identifying with struggle and guilt and begin inhabiting peace. The double for sins is the double assurance of mercy available when you turn to the Lord's hand—the symbol of your inner attention—and let it fall upon you as clarity and release. You have not earned forgiveness from without; you recall it from within, by assuming a healed, pardoned self. Your entire life rearranges itself around this recognition, and you find that what you once battled is already resolved in the depth of your awareness. Speak to the inner Jerusalem with tenderness, as to the most beloved part of you, and affirm, here and now, that you are at peace.