The Inner Courage of Gideon

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 6:11-12 places Gideon in a hidden moment, but in Neville's sense the scene is a state of consciousness. The winepress where he threshed wheat is your inner workshop, a secret place where fear is pressed till its substance yields to faith. The oak under which the messenger sits stands for your steady, unshaken sense of being. The angel of the LORD is not a far-off deity but the I AM within you, the living awareness that you are. When it speaks, 'The LORD is with thee,' it is a reminder that your true power resides in consciousness, not conditions. And when it calls Gideon 'mighty man of valour,' it is the perfect, gentle challenge to your own self-image: you are valour, you are leadership, you are strength, here and now, if you will accept it. The task is to revise your sense of self until this truth feels natural—beat by beat, thought by thought. As you dwell in this inner truth, your outward life begins to move in harmony with it, and deliverance comes as you acknowledge that God, that is, the I AM, is always present within you.