Inner Test of Righteousness

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, Psalm 11:5 reads as a teaching about states of consciousness. The Lord trieth the righteous is the breath of inner testing—the self-by-awareness examining whether your thoughts stay in harmony with your highest principle. The 'wicked' and the one who loves violence represent not distant enemies but thoughts and feelings you entertain that break the inner peace. God's soul hateth these states because they distort your true I AM, your steady, silent witness. The Psalm does not threaten you from without; it exposes the dynamic you cherish within. If you dwell in fear, aggression, or retaliation, you are inviting the rain of disturbance; if you hold steady in justice, mercy, and wholeness, your world follows that order. The righteous, in this view, is the one who keeps company with the I AM, refuses violence in thought and act, and therefore experiences a life in tune with divine law. The trieth, then, is simply the opportunity to revise—by assuming the truth of your completed state, and feeling it as real, now.