Overwhelmed to Invincible: Psalms 40:12

Neville's Inner Vision

All the 'evils' around you are not enemies but current states of your own consciousness. The phrase 'mine iniquities have taken hold upon me' marks the moment when a particular pattern of thought—guilt, failure, limitation—seizes your attention and makes it hard to lift your eyes. The psalmist says 'I am not able to look up'—a vision of consciousness yoked to fear. In truth, you are the I AM, the presence that looks, the awareness behind all images. When you stop bargaining with the world and begin to revise your sense of self, the entire landscape shifts. Dwelling in the awareness that God governs your mind, you can will a new scene: forgiveness here, mercy now, redemption in the moment. The old sense of 'more than hairs' breadth' is simply the exaggeration of a belief that you are separate from peace. Restore your gaze by imagining yourself as the I AM looking through the eyes of forgiveness; feel that you are already forgiven, that the heart's fatigue is dissolved by the light of awareness. Imagination creates reality; your inner assumption becomes your outer life.