Mastery Over Inner Waters

Neville's Inner Vision

Seas and rivers in Nahum are not distant coasts but the vast sea of your own awareness. When you hear that He rebuketh the sea, recognize the one within you who can speak to the storm and command it to be still. The drying up of the rivers is the drying up of runaway beliefs and restless thoughts that carry you away. Bashan, Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon symbolize outer powers—your pride, your identified strengths, and the beauty you think sustains you—that languish when the inner word takes command. The verse is a declaration that the inner I AM sovereignly governs form. When you acknowledge that consciousness is the sole source of perception, appearances rearrange themselves to reflect that truth. You need not battle without; you revise from within, and the world follows your inner tone. This is not coercion but recognition: reality follows consciousness, and the divine decree of stillness resides in you here and now.