Deliverance Through Trust

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the prison and the city are inner states of consciousness. The word delivered by the Lord is not a weather report but a shift in your inner atmosphere: a pledge that your fear will be met by a stronger awareness that you are the I AM, the self who cannot be harmed. The threatened evil in the outer city arises as a signal that your old identifications are being dissolved; the ally Ebedmelech becomes your inner aid—your higher self alerting you to the fact that you are not abandoned. When you hear, 'you shall not fall by the sword,' translate it into present tense: I am untouched by outer danger, for I am held by the I AM. The clause 'thy life shall be for a prey unto thee' means your vitality is reserved for a wiser use, not broken by fear. If you have been afraid, revise that fear with the felt certainty that you are already delivered, and that trust in the I AM is the only protection needed. The Lord's promise is a law of consciousness: change your inner state, and the outer event follows.