Inner Habitation of Deceit

Neville's Inner Vision

The verse speaks not of geography but of the state of consciousness you inhabit. The 'habitation' is the mind’s dwelling place; if that dwelling is woven from deceit—stories of separation, failure, or counterfeit worship—you will refuse to know the Lord, not because God hides, but because your inner vision is veiled. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM, the ever-present awareness within you. When your inner world is saturated with deceit, the self cannot recognize the living God as immediate reality. Deceit functions as a distant idol; you worship appearances and mistake them for truth. The invitation is to revise the orientation of your consciousness: stop looking for God in external rites and conditions, and affirm a new assumption: I am the I AM; God is my awareness now; this very consciousness knows me. As you align with this truth, deceit loses its grip and knowledge of God becomes natural, direct, and present in every moment. Your heart returns to true obedience and faithful seeing, not through ritual, but through the undeniable immediacy of awareness.