Inner Covenant Reclaimed: Jeremiah 3:20

Neville's Inner Vision

From the I AM within, the betrayal spoken of in Jeremiah 3:20 is an unspoken lapse in fidelity to the one God you truly are. The 'husband' is the awareness that holds and animates your life; the 'wife' straying is the mind's attention drawn outward, to forms, fears, or past rituals, as though God were elsewhere. The LORD speaking through the verse is your own awareness, not a distant judge. When you feel drawn to outward loyalties—rituals, memories, or fears—you are courting a form of idolatry that looks away from the living I AM. The verse invites a turning, not a punishment, a return to the original covenant of awareness where fidelity is simply your natural state. In Neville’s practice, treat this as a shift of state: assume you are already loyal to the I AM, and let the feeling of that union saturate your being until it displaces the old belief of separation. If memories of betrayal arise, revise them by declaring, 'I am faithful to the I AM within me now.' Through feeling-it-real, you re-embody the covenant and the 'LORD' becomes your constant, tender awareness rather than an external judgment.