Hear Me in Distress: Inner Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine you are not a separate seeker but the I AM, the God of your own righteousness. When the psalmist cries, 'Hear me when I call,' he is not petitioning an external power; he is turning his attention to a state of awareness that can listen because it already exists. Distress, in this light, is not punishment but an invitation to enlarge the field of consciousness. The claim 'thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress' proclaims that every pressure of circumstance becomes a door to greater being. In practice, revise the sense of limitation by aligning with mercy as your natural state, and imagine the world responding from your inner fact rather than from fear. The rebuke to 'ye sons of men' points to the pull of vanity and borrowed glory; when you identify with appearances you diminish your glory, but when you return to the I AM you reclaim it. Selah invites you to pause and acknowledge the inner shift. In short: greet distress with a firm assumption of enlargement and mercy, and observe the outer scene conform to your inner reality.