The Inner Tongue and Fire

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Psalm 120:3-4 as a dream of your own consciousness. The cry, 'What shall be given unto thee... thou false tongue?' is not a threat from outside but a chorus of inner speech that would condemn you. In Neville's sense, a 'false tongue' is any story you tell yourself about powerlessness, a wording that binds you to limitation. The 'sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper' are the fierce judgments your mind fires when a belief opposes the truth of your I AM. Yet those arrows have power only when you consent by imagining them real. The invitation is to return to the I AM, to the awareness that cannot be touched by another's words or by inner storms. By assuming a new state—see yourself as whole, truthful, and unassailable—feel the reality of that state now. Let your imagination prune the old speech with a warmer light: replace it with thoughts that bless, assert, and illuminate. The outer appearance becomes a translation of this inner decision. You are the deceiver and the deceived only when you forget who you are; remember, and the inner and outer align.