God Is Near, Not Far

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner listener, the question is not about geography but about the state of consciousness you inhabit. God is not a distant decree but the I AM that wakes with you in this moment. When you hear, 'Am I a God at hand, and not afar off?' you are being reminded that presence is a quality of awareness, not a place you travel to. In Neville’s practice, proximity is experienced by identifying with the I AM who perceives this very sentence. The Lord’s claim that God is at hand invites you to revise the sense of separation you carry; you do not reach God, you become aware of God as the very center of your awareness. Prophecy becomes personal assurance: if the one who knows is here, then the promised reality—peace, sufficiency, truth—unfolds from within. The 'afar off' is the dream of lack or distance; the moment you hold the belief in the nearness of God, that inner atmosphere shifts and you live from the conclusion that you are always in the divine company. Your imagination, rightly trained, becomes the instrument by which you experience this presence as your own reality.