Inner Judgment In A Day

Neville's Inner Vision

In Isaiah, 'Israel' stands for the state of your consciousness, not a nation apart. The 'head' and 'tail' are the two faces of an old self—the ruling thought and the dependent belief that you are defined by others and by outward conditions. The 'branch and rush' picture outward growth and fragile forms that appear when the old belief holds sway. When the LORD cuts them off 'in one day,' that is the sudden realization that can occur now: in awakening to I AM, the entire structure of that old identity drops away. Judgment becomes an inner correction, a clearing, not punishment; you simply cease entangling yourself with those roles. Exile and Return occur together as a single act of inner relocation: leaving the old self behind and returning to the basic awareness of I AM. The verse invites you to trust the immediacy of consciousness—you need not wait for external events; a single moment of unshaken awareness can dissolve the entire form of your past self.