Vanity of Wealth Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the line is not a sermon about money, but about your inner state. The vain shew and the disquiet are inner movements of consciousness when you identify with lack and external measure. God is not a purse you fill, but the I AM behind every thought—the constant awareness that there is a sense of plenty within you regardless of appearances. When you believe you are the one who must gather and defend riches, you become a man of disquiet, chasing outcomes instead of abiding in the assurance that you are the source of your supply. The verse asks you to question the very assumption that wealth is outside you or that security lies in accumulation. In Neville's terms, wealth is an experience you cultivate in imagination; you imagine yourself as the receiver of all provision, and the world mirrors that inner state. The outer scene may reveal pileups or emptiness, but the who shall gather them becomes a cue to realize you are always gathering from within. Rest in the conviction that the I AM already contains all things.