Echoes of Honor Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the quarrel is not about armies but about how you feel inside. The men of Ephraim represent a part of your mind that wants to be seen, to be called forth in its own time, its own right. Gideon’s action to go to the Midianites alone feels to that part like abandonment, a deviation from the ‘proper’ order. In truth, every external dispute is an image of inner states: one fragment of consciousness asserting itself, another feeling slighted, and the whole mind torn between unity and self-importance. The narrator does not condemn them; he reveals a law: you cannot be whole while you insist on being separate. When you identify with the I AM of awareness, you can revise the feeling that you have been overlooked by calling forth the unity that already exists. See that the call to fight is the I AM’s invitation to engage your own inner resistance, not a battle with others. The result is a healed field where pride surrenders to true belonging. Your task is to acknowledge every part, bless the contention, and return to the awareness that you are the whole.