Inner Punishment Revealed In Jeremiah

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the verse as a map of inner life. The land of Egypt is a state of consciousness, not a geography. When the text speaks of punishment by sword, famine, and pestilence, translate those images into inner movements: the sword cuts away old identifications; famine reveals emptiness behind false beliefs; pestilence is the mind-virus of anxious thoughts that oppress the heart. God’s action is not retribution from above but the I AM awakening you to your present reality. The people in exile reflect a mind clinging to a former state; the so-called punishment mirrors the nerves of fear still practiced in worship and habit. Yet you can revise this through a new assumption: you are the I AM, and the inner land becomes Jerusalem—the sanctuary of peace within. The promise is not that events will change first, but that your awareness does. As you hold the feeling of being unchanged by outer threats, the old triad dissolves, and you discover that you are the cause and the effect, now.