Inner Mercy for Ephraim

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner scripture here is not a distant decree but a state of consciousness you awaken to. In Jeremiah 31:20, Ephraim stands for the dear son within you who feels set apart by a word of judgment, yet the Lord’s memory is not a fact of the past but the I AM within you remembering its own image. God is the constant awareness that never ceases to recognize worth, and mercy is the atmosphere produced when that recognition returns. The bowels of the self—the tender stir of consciousness—are moved because love has found its reflection. If you take this reading as true, separation fades and mercy appears as your present reality, not as a reward promised later. Mercy, grace, and reconciliation are native to your being whenever you remember who you are. The old rebuke drops away; the inner light restores the beloved within, and you live from the restored sense of belonging. Jeremiah’s line then becomes an inner law: I am loved, I am merciful, I am restored, here and now.