Hearing the Cry Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, Job 34:26-28 is not a timetable of punishment imposed on others, but a map of your own inner weather. The line that he striketh them as wicked men becomes, in Neville's method, the moment you judge yourself as separated from the I AM; the act of turning back mirrors the self-willed thoughts that deny divine presence. The cry of the poor is the inward voice of neglected needs calling for recognition; when you do not consider any of God's ways, that inner complaint seeks attention and can seem to travel outward as fate. Yet the truth you are asked to remember is that the I AM hears the cry of the afflicted because the cry is your own consciousness calling you to awaken. By resting in the realization that you are the consciousness that rules, not the circumstance, you reverse the motion: allowance replaces attack, compassion replaces judgment, and the world’s cries echo your awakened feeling. You do not battle the world but change yourself, and the world within and without follows.