Job’s Inner Reckoning

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s complaint that God writes bitter things against him is the mind’s way of naming its own restless state. The 'iniquities of my youth' are not distant sins but the lingering habits of thought your awareness has taken as reality. The 'stocks' and the narrow paths are the mind’s bindings—beliefs about who you are and what you deserve—impressed upon your energy like a print on the heels. In the language of Neville, this is the inner weather of the I AM, not a punitive external force. When you realize God is the I AM within, you can revise the scene: the bitter line is a thought that can be dissolved by present awareness; the print is only a memory your mind repeats. Assume a new state: I AM, and I am free now. See yourself stepping out of the stocks, walking a broad road, and feel the path opening because you have chosen a different inner state. As you inhabit this revised state, the old judgments lose their grip and your consciousness walks into a new reality.