Grace Under the Hidden Face

Neville's Inner Vision

Make this a present-tense realization: The 'mountain' is your fixed state of blessing, your life established by grace. 'Favor' is not luck; it is the awareness that you are the I AM in mental action, upheld by consciousness. The hiding of the face is not a real withdrawal of God but the appearance of absence in your own inner looking. Your awareness turns toward lack, and trouble arises because you have forgotten the permanent presence of grace within. But the I AM never leaves the throne of your mind; you simply shift focus. When you revise from lack to favor, you re-anchor the mind in the feeling that the mountain stands, regardless of outward appearances. The moment you accept the condition 'I am favored now,' you awaken the inner mountain to stand firm in the face of any storm. In Neville's terms, you are not changing God's mood but reconditioning your state of consciousness until it matches the wish fulfilled.