Disarming Craft With Inner Light

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the language of Job you are being told a principle of consciousness. The 'devices of the crafty' are not a distant plot but the habitual thoughts you mistake for power. When you insist that others are clever enough to ruin you, you are merely giving life to that belief in your own mind. The I AM—the awareness you are—disappoints the schemes you call clever, by turning their action back on their authors and exposing the hollowness of their counsel. Notice how 'the counsel of the froward is carried headlong'—that is your misdirected thoughts collapsing under the weight of truth you refuse to see. Darkness in daylight and noonday in the night is the inner experience when you forget who you are. Yet the verse also speaks of salvation: the poor are saved from the sword, from their mouth, from the hand of the mighty, because they are protected by the divine presence you can claim. So the poor have hope; your own sense of lack dissolves as you realize that justice is already within you and acting through you. Trust this, and your world rearranges itself to reflect your renewed awareness.