Quenching the Inner Thirst: Judges 15:18

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 15:18 places Samson in a moment of bodily thirst, yet in truth it points to a need within. The man of Israel has just been delivered from a foe by the power of his own consciousness. The cry, 'Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant,' is your awareness acknowledging that every win is a condition of I AM. The fear of dying for thirst is the ego's final test: can you stand in the presence of lack and keep the inner faith that you are cared for by the one life within you? The thinking that you will be overcome by the 'uncircumcised' world is the belief that water, nourishment, and safety are outside you. Neville would have you interpret the thirst as a signal to return to imagination, to revise the sensation as a sign that water, nourishment, and safety are already supplied. The still, small voice within declares: the provision is within; drink from the fountain of your own consciousness. Thus every crisis dissolves when you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, here and now, and let your inner I AM satisfy you.