Mocked Yet Heard: Job 12:4

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the neighbor's laughter is not an external verdict but the old state of consciousness clinging to you as you speak the I AM. In Neville's language, you are not being judged by men; you are being shown the gap between the life you currently inhabit and the life you are becoming by your prayer. The one who calls on God is the I AM within; the world's mockery is the echo of beliefs that God does not answer or that righteousness invites contempt. When you realize that imagination creates reality, the laugh fades as you occupy now the inner room where the answer already stands. The verse invites you to reverse the situation - perceive the 'man who is laughed to scorn' as a figure in your own dream, and choose to awaken to the state of being that already receives the divine response. Your prayer is not perfunctory; it is a reaffirmation of the state you claim to be true, and that state will, in time, appear as your life.