Inner Ground Of Job 18:4

Neville's Inner Vision

In this line, the tearing anger is not a cruel external event; it is a state of consciousness by which you imagine the ground of your life becoming unsettled to accommodate a belief in separation. Bildad's question—'shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?'—is a dare to your awareness. When you identify with anger you suppose that the very foundations of your inner world are being displaced by outer circumstances. Yet the earth and rock are symbolic of your fixed meaning, your certainty that you are the I AM, the awareness behind all scenes. The moment you accept an anger-propelled belief as real, you inhabit a reality in which your inner ground is uprooted. The remedy is simple: refuse to believe in upheaval; assume that the I AM holds all your foundations intact. By the act of assumption you re-anchor the earth and rock to your consciousness and let the world rearrange itself to reflect your new state.