Turning Hearts Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the Jonah drama plays as your own state of consciousness. The line 'Who can tell if God will turn and repent' is not asking for permission from outside; it's reminding you that God is the I AM you are aware of, and that your attention can revise any doom by turning. When you imagine turning from a 'evil way'—a pattern of fear, lack, or resentment—your inner observer witnesses the shift, and God, the living awareness, repents of the 'evil' the mind had insisted would be done. The reversal arises not by pleading, but by turning from identification with the problem into alignment with its solution. Then the verse's second movement occurs: God sees their works—your renewed acts of faith—and the imagined anger dissolves, and the supposed punishment is not carried out. In practical terms, you can live as if the correction has already taken place: you assume the end you desire, feel the relief as if it is real, and persist. The outer world follows your inner adjustment, for you are the one manifesting both.