Craving Sanctified: Numbers 11:18-20

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Numbers 11:18-20 as a parable of your inner weather. The cry for flesh is not a meal, but a covenant with sensation—an old story of bondage in which you imagine security lies in external things. When you insist on supplying your own appetite by the outer world, you are inviting a temporary abundance that hardens into loathing, because it ignores the Presence of the Lord that dwells within you. Sanctify yourselves—purify your mental atmosphere—by acknowledging that you, and you alone, are the I AM here. The 'Lord among you' is your own awareness, and the miracle of supply is a function of that awareness. The people weep, 'Why came we forth out of Egypt?'—a question born of fear and memory. But in your inward experience, that question dissolves when you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Do not resist appetite, but revise it with the truth that fulfillment is already present in consciousness. The fleshly craving becomes nourishment when seen as a symbol of your inner sufficiency, provided by the Presence within you.