Whispers to the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

That cry, 'I cried to thee, O LORD,' is not a petition to an absent deity but a declaration of your own state of consciousness. The LORD you seek is the I AM within you, the awareness that never fades. When the question arises, 'What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?' you are confronting a belief in separation; the pit is a mental state, not a grave. 'Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?' speaks to the habit of giving power to what seems decaying or inert. Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me; LORD, be thou my helper — these lines invite you to reverse the scene by assuming a new inner condition. You answer your own cry by choosing the state of mercy, by feeling the divine helper present as your own I AM. Do not plead from without; acknowledge the inner law: you are the consciousness that can narrate praise, declare truth, and rise. By adjustment of imagination and feeling, you enter a reality that never abandoned you.