Shield of the Inner I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the verse as a map of consciousness. Thou, O LORD, is not a distant king but the I AM that dwells in you—the shield that guards your current sense of self. 'My glory' is the splendid identity formed when you acknowledge the I AM as your sole reality; 'the lifter up of mine head' is the uplift of your posture as you calmly refuse the world’s evidence and align with feeling itself. When the psalmist says 'I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill,' hear the word 'cried' as a call of attention back to the inner hill of faith—the true hill within where God hears; your cry is answered by the still small voice of awareness, not an external visitation. 'I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me' shows the regenerative power of dwelling in the I AM. Rest and wake are not conditions of the body but states of consciousness that persist when you live from the shield of awareness. Your entire life becomes the evidence of a sustained, intimate relation with the I AM.