Lamentations: Inner Turn Toward God

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the lines of lament, Neville would hear a simple gospel: a living man who complains is a state of consciousness clinging to separation. The punishment is not a distant judgment but the fruit of identifying with lack and deficiency. The remedy is inner turning—'let us search and try our ways' becomes a disciplined auditing of thoughts and a deliberate reorientation toward the I AM, the one constant awareness in which all things are created. When the call says 'turn again to the LORD,' Neville interprets this as returning to the original relationship with God—recognizing that God is the I AM within, not a man external to you. To 'lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens' is the felt rise of consciousness: a mood elevated by faith in your own divine nature. The line 'We have transgressed and have rebelled' dissolves when you acknowledge forgiveness as your inherent state, not a gift withheld. Thus, the passage becomes a blueprint: stop believing in punishment, start living as the awareness that never departed from its source, and watch the outward come into alignment with this inner truth.