Inner Judgment and Return

Neville's Inner Vision

All the 'sword, the famine, and the pestilence' are not external cruelties but inner movements of your own mind when you forget who you are. The LORD of hosts is the I AM within you, not a distant judge. The severe language points to a cleansing of old beliefs, a famine to the cravings of the ego, a pestilence of doubt that clears the air for new light. When you identify with the nations to which you are driven, you awaken to a sense of separation; when, however, you return to the one state—God within—you are delivered by your own awareness, not by external events. The exile is the mind’s relocation from disordered pictures to the order of the kingdom of God. The message of judgment is really a preparation for a higher function: to feel that you are already as you shall be. Imagination, rightly used, dissolves the 'evils' into symbols of transformation. So you can choose now to revise the inner weather by dwelling in the feeling of your I AM as abundance, safety, and wholeness.