The Snare of Strength

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the man of Job is not a distant sufferer but a state of consciousness called strength. When you identify with a plan, skill, or outer resource as your sole defense, that posture tightens, and your steps become straitened. Your own counsel—your beliefs about how life must work—casts you down, as if your feet tangled in a net you devised. The gin that grips the heel and the robber that prevails are the natural consequences of thinking you are separate from the I AM. The snare laid in the ground and the trap in the way reveal that what you fear is a projection of your own mind—life responds to your inner image, not to chance. Yet this is only appearance. In truth, you are the awareness behind every thought, the I AM that can free the scene from its binding by merely changing its meaning. When you revise from 'I must' to 'I AM,' the imagined net dissolves, and the path becomes clear, because you have stopped feeding the story with separation and fear.