In His Presence Inner Darkness

Neville's Inner Vision

Your trouble at His presence is not a raw complaint against a distant deity, but a signal from the I AM within you that you are not fully identified with your new state. When you ponder the divine presence, you are meeting your own inner dispositions in motion. The fear you feel is the friction of an old self clinging to limitation; soften it by accepting that the heart's softening is the very instrument God uses to guide you. The line that the Almighty troubles me is the invitation to revision—feel the reality that you can be in the trial and yet be unchanged by it, for the law of your consciousness governs the scene. The darkness that seems to surround you is not a punishment but a stage where you demonstrate faith in the unseen I AM. Do not plead for the light as something outside; imagine and feel now that you are the consciousness that casts the light. In that inner shift, the 'face' of God is your own awareness brightening on the page of your life.