Inner Mercy, Inner Standing

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the psalmist places the human condition inside the mind: you can’t stand before the 'Judge' if you keep tally of sins. Yet the truth of God-consciousness is that forgiveness is not external mercy granted to a chosen few, but the very atmosphere of awareness you dwell in. When you treat yourself as separate in guilt, you separate from the I AM that forgives; you contract your state into fear and memory. Neville's teaching would say: the moment you awaken to the fact that there is forgiveness with thee, you cease to measure yourself; you stand because your consciousness, not your sins, is the ground of being. To fear God becomes not fear of punishment but reverence for the living, forgiving you into freedom. The practice is to revise your inner record by declaring, 'There is forgiveness with God' and to feel that you are already forgiven in the I AM you inhabit. In that shift, forgiveness turns into grace that restores harmony with your true self, and you stand firm in peace rather than under guilt.