Thirst for God Within

Neville's Inner Vision

You are not seeking a distant God; you are awakening to the God you already are—the I AM, the living Presence within. In Neville's sense, every verse is a map of a state of consciousness, and 'thirst' is the stirring of awareness, not a plea for rain from above. The cry 'Where is thy God?' becomes an invitation to invert perception: turn outward longing into inward recognition. If your soul would 'come and appear before God,' you must imagine that you are already in the divine presence and dwell there, feeling the sustaining 'meat' that the tears signify as nourishment of your inner life. The external trials and sleepless nights reflect a moment of resistance to your own inherent divinity; soften that resistance by assuming the feeling of being seen by God, of God being present now as you. When you persist in this assumption, the sense of absence dissolves, and the living God manifests as your present experience, not as a distant event. Your job is to hold the state of I AM and let the world align to it.