Pain as Door to Life Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Job 33:19-22 the body is chastened until pain pierces every bone, and bread itself becomes a memory of ease. I hear in this chastening a call to your consciousness: suffering of the flesh reveals a mis-tuned assumption about life. The soul stands at the threshold of the grave, not to perish but to awaken to a greater life you have already assumed in imagination. The remedy is simple: cease arguing with appearances and assume the feeling of your fulfilled state. Enter within and declare: I am the I AM, the life that cannot die. See the wasting as a symbolic shedding of a false self; let the bones and flesh ground you in vitality rather than fear. When the urge to despair arises, reverse the movement by insisting that the divine life now animates every cell. Your judgment of the body becomes your choice of a new reality, and the pain becomes the pointer that you are close to the inner door through which regeneration occurs.