Inner Keepers of Psalm 121

Neville's Inner Vision

To lift one's eyes to the hills is not looking to distant mountains, but turning inside to the inner elevations of consciousness where your awareness stands watch. 'My help cometh from the LORD' becomes, for the diligent reader, the recognition that the I AM within is the source of every support you seek. The Lord is your keeper, not an external spectator but the steady, unwearied presence you feel as shelter on your right hand. He neither slumbers nor sleeps because awareness itself is awake, and you are awakened within it. The sun and moon cannot hurt you because you are safeguarded by the round-the-clock keeping of your own consciousness. The psalm invites you to rest in the truth that all movements, going out and coming in, are preserved by this enduring presence. When you finally affirm that the Lord keeps Israel in the inner sense, you are affirming that your own inner life is guarded by a constant, benevolent I AM that does not sleep, but which you can become conscious of at any moment. This is not future grace but present certainty, here and now, in your experience.