Nearness of the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the psalm, the words do not threaten an external fate; they reveal a state the soul must entertain. In Neville’s lens, 'forsake me not' becomes a declaration of the I AM as your unchanging awareness. Your present sense of aloneness arises as a mental state, not as a weather of the world. The verse invites you to disbelieve the illusion of distance by assuming the reality of the Divine proximity. When you say, 'be not far from me,' you are rehearsing a new inner disposition—your inner atmosphere is saturated with the awareness that God itself is the I AM that knows you, loves you, and leads you. The entire Psalm is a petition that pushes you to revise your inner tale: replace separation with intimacy; replace fear with the confident claim, 'I am in God, and God is in me, here and now.' In Neville’s practice, you do not seek God outside; you awaken to the fact that the I AM is already present as your consciousness. The practice is to dwell in that presence until your feeling state aligns with it, until distance dissolves in the felt certainty of oneness.