Return to the Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Jeremiah's husband-and-wife parable as your own mind wrestling with loyalty. The question about returning after departure is really a question about the I AM you, about whether you can return your awareness to the one living truth after following many distractions. The land polluted by 'many lovers' is the mind filled with passing appetites and external proofs; yet the Lord's call 'return again to me' is an invitation to repentance in consciousness, not a juridical drama. When you dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM and that every thought, every craving, can be confronted with that eternal stillness, you restore covenant loyalty. The 'marital' bond is your inner unity with God; when you imagine from that center, the land is cleansed, the lovers dissolve into the background, and you awaken as if returning home. Refrain from arguing the divorce of your true nature; instead, revise any image of separation by feeling the I AM as your permanent self, here and now.