Inner Bridegroom Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

To the seeker, the scene in Matthew is not about rules but about states of consciousness. The bridegroom stands for the I AM within you, the ever-present reality by which you are fed, fulfilled, and complete. When that presence is felt, there is no need to fast in lack, for you are already full. The disciples’ question signals a forgetting: if you identify with the hungry self, you imagine you must suffer to attract what you desire. The days when the bridegroom is taken away correspond to the moment you forget you are one with God and begin to seek from externals. In Neville’s reading, awaken to the inner banquet now: assume the feeling of continuous divine presence, dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM, and allow all seeming deprivation to dissolve in that recognition. The “fast” becomes a deliberate turn of attention back to the source, not a penance but a return to explicit consciousness. If fear or lack arises, repeat inwardly: I am with God; I am the I AM; this feast is mine.