Turning Toward The Inner LORD

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard perspective, the verse reveals a state of consciousness: the nation has not turned to the inner source of its distress and has not sought the LORD within—the I AM that hosts all powers. The 'smiter' is not an external tyrant but the inner law of consequences and the restless ego that blames others. When you persist in turning away from the inner promptings, you disempower your present reality, because your life is an image formed by your assumption. The people are described as not seeking the LORD of hosts, but the LORD of hosts is always within, a field of awareness ready to be invited by a new assumption. Therefore, the healing remedy is not in changing outer circumstances but in changing your state of consciousness: assume you are already aligned with the I AM and that the inner prompting is tender correction guiding you to a higher self. As you reframe your response to pain or discipline as instruction from the I AM, the inner movements begin to shift; you will find that the smiter's sting softens as you choose to seek the LORD within and to dwell there in quiet trust. In that posture, you transition from resistance to revelation.