Inner Lions, Divine Provision

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Psalm, the lions roar as outward assurance of hunger; yet the living principle behind that hunger is your own awareness. The roar is the mind's urging to be fed; the prey is the desire you believe must arrive from without. But notice: they seek their meat from God - not from the jungle, not from chance - but from the I AM that you are. In Neville's terms, God is not a distant deity but the consciousness that makes you aware of your need and supplies its fulfillment through imagination. When you realize that you, as awareness, can attend to your inner state and conclude I am fed by the one Life, the appetite does not vanish; it is redirected into a vibration of sufficient supply. The Lions become symbols of your impulses moving toward the belief that everything you require already exists in God, within your present moment of I AM. The practical effect is to shift the scene from waiting for prey to acting as the perceiver who, by assuming the end, reinvents the inner atmosphere. In that quiet faith, the outer feeding follows as a natural manifestation.