Job 7:19 Inner Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

To Job, the 'departing' God is not a distant judge but the mind clinging to a belief in separation. In Neville’s sense, the waking dream of God withdrawing is a misreading of your state of consciousness. The I AM, the eternal You, remains ever-present as the inner heartbeat of awareness. The verse can be read as a cry from a state that fears abandonment; you are not banished, you are momentarily identified with a thought of distance. The remedy is to revise the feeling by assuming the contrary: that God’s presence is unbroken and that you are one with it now. When you declare, 'I am always here in the I AM,' you dissolve the illusion of withholding. Everyday life, sickness, and suffering become signals that you are practicing the art of remembrance: your sensations, voices, and trials are only movements in consciousness, not evidence of separation. Sit with the feeling and let the breath become a conduit for the divine presence. In your imagination, envision a warm, radiant I AM enfolding you, and stand in the certainty that you are the I AM, not its victim.