Inner Strength Reclaimed

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, these verses do not narrate a distant destruction but describe a state of consciousness. When you identify with a life where force, vitality, and security are constantly under siege, your strength becomes 'hungerbitten' and destruction sits by your side. The 'firstborn of death' devours your assumed power, and your confidence is uprooted from the inner tabernacle. The 'king of terrors' is the dominant fear you nurse, the sense that you are at the mercy of events. The imagery of brimstone scattering upon your habitation marks the purification of your dwelling from old beliefs; yet this purification is not punishment but a shifting of your inner atmosphere. The outer ruin you imagine becomes the stage for a resurrection of your true life: the realization that the I AM—your essential awareness—never left you. Rest in the conviction that your inner kingdom abides beyond appearances; plant in your mind a new assumption: 'I am the I AM; my strength is inexhaustible; nothing can devour the God within me.' When you revise, you feel the vitality return, and the surrounding scene aligns with that inner state.