Mercy Begins Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 24:21 exposes a truth about the inner weather of consciousness. The barren and the widow are not merely other people; they are symbols of neglected powers within you that long to bear fruit and to be cared for. To mistreat them is to polish a sharp blade of judgment in the temple of awareness, a failure to nourish your own possibilities. The I AM—your essential awareness—knows no shortage, no lack of compassion; yet when you accept a hostile inner attitude, you project injustice into the world outside. If you would see justice, you must revise the inner relation: imagine the 'barren' parts of you receiving life, imagine the 'widow' within you being supported and safeguarded by your steady mercy. This inner receptivity changes how you think, speak, and act, and the outer conditions align with your inner posture. Mercy is not sentiment—it is the stabilizing assumption of your consciousness. Rest in the conviction that you are the governor of your inner scene, and thus you govern the world around you.