Inner Victory in Psalm 118

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture this: you are not chased by outward foes but by restless thoughts and limiting images that circle your quiet I AM. They surround you, bees of doubt, buzzing with fear, yet you answer from the throne of your own consciousness: in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. The name is not a shout to a distant God; it is a recognition that your awareness is the I AM, the very essence that speaks and creates. When you identify with that I AM—the you who is aware—you weaken the surrounding swarm and set it aflame with your certainty. The bees are quenched as the fire of thorns because the fire is your conviction that nothing external can prevail over the inner state of being. The victory is not in fighting them outside but in insisting that the state of victory is already present within you and asserts itself as your experience. Your mental circle dissolves into stillness, and your path becomes clear as you maintain the assumption that the LORD, the I AM, destroys every claim of separation.