Inner Deliverance From Oppression

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Zidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites as separate colors in your mind—the old fears and stubborn habits that pressed in when you forgot who you are. They can harass you externally, yet they are only the memory of lack pressing on your consciousness. When you cry, not to a distant god, but to the I AM that you are, you invite a transformation. The deliverance spoken of in the verse is not a rescue from somewhere outside, but a return to the realization that the One who delivers is your own awareness. As you acknowledge I AM here and now, those oppressions dissolve into light, and you find yourself free, because you are the very state of freedom in which events unfold. Your prayer awakens by assuming the feeling that you are already delivered; you imagine the boundary between you and your freedom dissolving. In that assured state, action follows from inner certainty, not from fear.