The Inner Promised Land

Neville's Inner Vision

All that happened to Israel in the wilderness is a symbolic picture of what happens inside a man or a woman who refuses the inner word. The pleasant land is the inner state you imagine as your own fulfilled life. To despise it, to doubt the word that calls you forward, is to turn from your inner guidance and to murmur at the doors of your own mind. When such doubt takes hold, the inner energy withdraws, and the LORD's voice becomes faint; you feel lifted into a wilderness of delay, and the very seed of your future—your desires, projects, and relations—loses grounding and seems scattered among the nations of fear and habit. Yet all of this is only the drama of consciousness, not fate. The remedy is not to strive outwardly but to re-enter the one state—I AM, the awareness that assumes the end. Listen to the still voice within as if it speaks your name, revise the mood: from doubt to certainty, from complaint to gratitude. In that inner act, the wilderness dissolves, the land returns, and your seed finds its home in quiet unity with God.