I Am Against The Old Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness Nahum’s oracle speaks not of a city you visit, but of the inner kingdom you inhabit. 'I am against thee' translates as the decisive refusal of the old self—the belief in lack, fear, and the continuing sense of problems. The chariots of restless thought are burned in the smoke of realized consciousness; when you awaken to I AM, they lose their energy and vanish. The sword that devours the young lions is the precise, penetrating attention of awareness that consumes every imminent threat before it can take form. Your prey—the outward conditions you once chased—are cut off from the earth of your awareness, and thus they can no longer feed your sense of reality. The voice of thy messengers—the alarmed voices of doubt—ceases its noise because you have turned to the one self that never changes. The verse invites you into the discipline of inner sovereignty: let the inner fire do its work, and you will live in a day when judgment is redefined as the release of fear, and return is the natural state of your heart.