The Watcher Within Job 7:12

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 7:12 speaks of a sea-beast sentry over the self, yet in truth the watcher is the I AM within, the very awareness that constitutes your being. The diction of confinement reveals not a punitive God, but your own belief in separation from the one life that you are. When you feel as Job did—penned in, watched, limited—recognize that the sea, the whale, the boundary are mental images stirring within consciousness. You are not at the mercy of an external guard; you are the guard, the observer who names the movements of your inner weather. The watch expresses the constancy of your attention. Where you fix attention, you grant it reality. Therefore, the moment you decide you are the watcher, the sense of being watched dissolves into a single field of life and presence. Imagination is the instrument by which you revise: assume you are already the watcher who gazes calmly upon the scene, and the scene bends to reflect your interior alignment. Providence becomes presence; confinement yields to the freedom of awareness.