Psalm 37:25 Inner Providence

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the verse as a statement about your inner life, not a distant history. The righteous are those who live in the I AM, the awareness that God is present as you. To them, God does not abandon; the sense of lack is the product of a mis-tuned state, not of a capricious fate. When the psalmist says I have been young and now old, he is naming a continuous, unbroken confidence in the inner life that governs every moment. Your inner Providence is a constant wind in the sails of your imagination. If you feel bereft, you revise: I am sustained by the I AM; bread is mine as I dwell in that truth. The seed that is not begging bread is the seed of your own state, nourished by faithful attention to God as your own awareness. Imagination, rightly directed, brings forth abundance because the inner ruler is always present. Thus the verse invites you to dwell in the immediacy of God within, and to let your outer scene reflect the health of your inner conviction.