Inner Salvation Psalms 14:4-7

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the 'workers of iniquity' are not distant forces but patterns of thought that forget the Lord within. When you 'call not upon the LORD,' you feel separation and fear; you shrink back from the I AM who is always present. Yet the Psalmist proclaims that God is in the generation of the righteous—the moment your consciousness recognizes itself as the I AM, the divine presence reveals itself as refuge. The 'counsel of the poor' is your sense of lack and limitation; to shame it is to awaken to awareness that lack is only a dream, dissolved by the light of awareness. The longing for 'salvation' from Zion points to the inner awakening: Zion is the stable, knowing state of consciousness, not a distant city. When the Lord brings back the captivity of His people, it is your realization that you never left the promised land—the kingdom of God within you—only forgot. Then Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad: the two faces of your nature—strength and devotion, mind and heart—are harmonized into one radiant consciousness. You awaken to act from the I AM and discover the restoration you sought is already present in your awareness.