Inner Mercy and Truth Preservation

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 40:11-12 is a study in consciousness. The tender mercies and lovingkindness are not external favors but the atmosphere of your I AM—your present awareness that preserves you. When the mind feels surrounded by evils, recall that these evils arise from a misalignment within, the result of forgetting who you are as the living expression of truth. In Neville’s terms, the cry for mercy and preservation is a call to awaken to your true state: the I AM that already holds you in constant care. The onrush of iniquities and the sense of not being able to look up are signposts that you have temporarily identified with limitation rather than with the eternal, unchanging you. To be preserved is to dwell in the knowing that truth is alive in you here and now, and mercy flows as the mood of consciousness that accepts and reveals your right relationship with God within. In that inner space, you are untouched by outer turmoil and held by the steady, immutable life of consciousness itself.