Inner Hope in Job 17:15

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened reader, this line does not lament a distant future but reveals a state of consciousness you have forgotten. 'Where is now my hope?' cries the man of old; yet hope is not a weather in the sky but a beacon within your own awareness. You are the I AM, the consciousness that cannot lose its own images. When you identify with lack, your hope becomes elusive; when you identify with the steady sight that you are, hope arises as the very perceiver of your life. The question 'who shall see it?' is a reminder that belief and sight are inseparable: what you inwardly affirm, you eventually witness outwardly. Do not seek hope outside yourself, for the moment you mention 'now' you step into a reforming act of imagination. Your future is a function of the present assumption, of the feeling that what you intend is already real. The inner word, the inner image, and the steadfast I AM fuse into one living fact—the hope you thought was lost is simply the awareness that you exist as its witness.