Inner Suffering, Inner Healing

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Isaiah is not telling us about a distant figure outside you, but about the very state of your own consciousness. The despised and sorrowful one is the part of you that has believed separation, the inner identity that has hidden from the light, asking to be seen and forgiven. When the text says 'Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,' it is your I AM acknowledging every belief that aches and is afraid, lifting it into the light of awareness rather than resisting it. The world may regard this self as stricken and afflicted, yet the 'stripes' and 'wounds' are symbolic of the disciplined castigation of false thoughts—what Neville would call the revision of self-concept. By the truth that the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, you learn that guilt is a misperception of your own being; blame is a dream dissolved in consciousness. When he remains silent under attack, it is your inner stillness choosing to be unaffected by appearance, and in that silence the inner peace is established. In this light, healing comes as you identify with the I AM, not the story of sorrow, and allow the conviction of wholeness to stand.