Inner Vindication in Jeremiah

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah’s cry is a parable for the mind under a belief in threat. In Neville’s language you are not the body but a state of consciousness—the I AM—that heeds no external danger but reads its own names. The lamb or ox is your old self image marched to the slaughter by a belief in danger; the tree with the fruit speaks of the causes you think produce your life. When you pray, let me see thy vengeance, you are really asking to see the truth that the inner judge knows: the only power is your awareness. The line about the reins and the heart invites you to notice your inner dispositions: what belief are you entertaining? To revise is to declare, in feeling, that your inner life is secure in God and that the outer scene must follow the motion of that inner truth. Hold the conviction that your cause is clear to you in the I AM, and the outer conditions rearrange to reflect your revised state.