Birth Pangs Behind Outer Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah names the inhabitant of Lebanon who nests in cedars as a symbol of a proud state of consciousness that seeks height in outer shelters. But when pangs come, the pain of travail, the outer ease is upended, and the inner work begins. This is not punishment but a birthing of a higher self. The pangs reveal that you are not defined by cedar-like towers but by the I AM within, the awareness that experiences and sustains all. The writer points to exile and return inside: leaving dependence on the external and returning to inner truth. If you cling to your old structure, the travail will intensify; if you welcome it as the womb of transformation, the new consciousness forms. Your task is to revise the assumption: I am not what I possess or how I appear, but the I AM that observes. When you feel the pangs, rest in that presence and allow a new state to rise, a unity that replaces fear with trust in the indwelling God.