Return and Rise Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this passage is a mirror of consciousness. The fall is not in the street but in a state of awareness that has forgotten its I AM. The Lord speaking as the I AM asks, shall they fall and not arise? The answer is not about external judgment but about inner momentum: a perpetual backsliding born of deceit, a refusal to return to the living alignment of God within. When you hear 'I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright,' you hear the voice of your own attention clinging to old stories, not yet willing to repent by shifting the assumption that you are separate from God. The horse rushing into battle is the way your mind races into its habitual pattern, forgetting the immediate presence of I AM. Yet identity is not lost; it is simply waiting for a new assumption. The moment you choose an alternate state—one where you are already returned to God—you rewrite the scene and become the writer, actor, and witness of your life. Your backsliding ends as you realize return is your natural state.