Inner Mercy Remembered

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the line does not beg anything external; it awakens your I AM awareness to itself. In Neville's language, God is your own consciousness, the I AM that perceives. When you declare tender mercies and lovingkindness have been of old, you are not reciting a history lesson but honoring the constancy of your present awareness. The remembering is a revision of state: you choose to dwell in grace rather than lack. The covenant loyalty described is the steadfast habit of trusting that mercy is your natural atmosphere. Each moment you accept that memory as true, you act as if mercy is your native air. The world you perceive will shift to reflect that inner memory—kindness arising, opportunities to forgive, a sense of being kept. Do not seek mercy outside; train your attention to the memory of it within, and watch circumstances bend to your inner covenant. The key is feeling-it-real: feel the mercy now, and let that feeling inform every thought, word, and deed.