The Narrow Steps of Strength

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the 'steps of strength' not as outer muscles, but as the movements of a state of consciousness. When you lean on pride or on a clever plan apart from the I AM, your inner steps become straitened, your forward motion falters, and you feel the sting of your own counsel turning against you. Now, turn your attention from effort to awareness. The I AM within you is the sole architect of every movement; imagination is the instrument by which you revise your inner landscape. If you imagine yourself free of the pride that thinks it can govern without truth, your inner steps widen again, and the very counsel that once toppled you becomes a guide that points toward harmony. The scene in Job is not punishment; it is a reminder that the psyche cannot use false strength without paying the price. When you refuse to trust an outer cleverness and instead dwell in the certainty of I AM, the imagined steps rediscover their natural ease, and the fallings away of old plans dissolve into a new, enlightened stride.