Inner Crossing of Israel's Distress

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 10:9 is not a history lesson but a mirror of consciousness. The Ammonites who crossed the Jordan are the wandering thoughts that cross the boundary from one state of mind to another, disturbing Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim—the functions of perception, memory, and judgment. Israel's distress is the felt consequence of believing in separation. The Jordan stands for the boundary between old self-dominions and the risen sense of I AM. When these foreign forces invade your interior, you feel a shared dread because you have allowed a perception of others' power to occupy the land of awareness. Yet the inner Kingdom is not threatened; it merely awaits the moment you awaken to your unity with the One Life. The verse asks you to acknowledge that the scene you call 'outside' is entirely within you, and your action is to revise it from separation to wholeness. Picture the tribes already at peace, the Jordan peacefully receding, and the people standing as one in the awareness of I AM. As you dwell in that state, the surface events transform, and distress dissolves as you recognize you are not bound by the appearance but by your awareness.