Chastening Into Inner Preservation

Neville's Inner Vision

To those who awaken to the I AM, 'The LORD' is not a distant deity but the very sense of awareness within. The phrase 'hath chastened me sore' speaks of the mind’s sharpening, the inner corrective that trims away limiting imaginations. Chastening is not a punishment but a narrowing of old identifications until they yield to a truer idea of self. When the verse says 'but he hath not given me over unto death,' it proclaims that the inner state cannot be annihilated by discipline; the death to the old self is not final but transformative. The I AM, by its intimate discipline, preserves the life of your true nature—your capacity to imagine and to believe anew. In Neville’s terms, experiencing chastening with faith means you deliberately revise your state of consciousness toward the higher idea you desire to live. The pain becomes reassurance: you are still held by consciousness that never dies; your new life begins whenever you align with the created idea within.