Tears Toward The I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's line is not a catalog of misfortune but a map of inner states. 'Friends scorn me' marks a belief that I am judged by outer voices; yet 'mine eye poureth out tears unto God' is the decisive act: the I AM to whom your attention is poured becomes your only audience. In Neville's terms you do not move toward God by changing people, but by changing your state of consciousness. Tears become the symbol of a consecrated attention— tears shed not in despair but in the quiet assurance that God is present as the living I AM within you. The scorn you perceive dissolves as you assume the feeling of God already answering, or the sense that the I AM hears your petition. Your inner petition, repeatedly felt, shifts the inner weather; the outer taunts fade when the inner reality of God's presence becomes your dominant state. So this verse invites you to turn away from the world's judgments and attend to the inward presence that you are, the only reality you will ever live from.