Judges 14:20 — Inner Covenant Shift

Neville's Inner Vision

Judge the scene not as history but as a parable of your own state of consciousness. The wife represents the inner unity you call 'I' or 'Self,' and the companion stands for the outward attachments by which you seek security. When you have used or leaned upon appearances—friends, conditions, or outcomes—as the source of wholeness, you awaken to the fact that such forms are temporary and thus dispossess what you call your own. The verse says the wife is given to the companion; this is your inner sense of self being handed over to a secondary perception, a reflection rather than the living I AM. To recover, revert to the premise that you are awareness, not a bundle of changing relationships. The real marriage, the inner unity, remains intact when you stop negotiating your worth through others and instead dwell in the assurance: I am that I AM, the one stable consciousness behind all appearances.