Inner Land Jealousy and Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's voice: 'The line “Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people” is spoken not of a distant sovereign but of your own consciousness. The land is your inner ground—the thoughts, feelings, and habits you accept as reality. The Lord’s jealousy is the fiery fidelity of awareness, a single-minded refusal to abandon that ground to fear, lack, or stale habit. When you identify with the I AM that is always awake, your consciousness becomes a loyal lover of its own land, watching, guarding, desiring its fullness. The pity spoken of is not pity for others apart from you, but mercy poured into your inner beings—the parts of you that have known exile or pain. This mercy awakens compassion, dissolves resistance, and redefines what you accept as possible. Your covenant with the divine is the decision to regard your inner realm as sacred, to listen to its rhythms, and to permit the impulse toward wholeness to move you toward action, imagination, and faith."