For Thy Sake: Inner Trial

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville’s teaching, the ‘we’ in this psalm is a state of consciousness, not a crowd of victims. When it says we are killed all the day long, it reveals the mind clinging to old identities and fears; when we are counted as sheep for the slaughter, it marks a mass inner agreement with an image of powerlessness. The turn, however, comes when you remember the I AM—your present awareness that never dies. For thy sake signals that this scene is not a punishment but a permission slip for a higher state: you consent to a transformation by aligning your attention with God within. The outward blood of trial is the inward shedding of the old you, not a doom but a doorway. If you dwell as the Lord’s I AM, the sense of being persecuted dissolves into quiet confidence. The very act of imagining differently—seeing the ‘we’ as a unity with the divine, feeling the truth that you prevail in spirit—restores the power to act, endure, and renew from within.