The Hidden Face Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your cry Wherefore hidest thou thy face is not a complaint against a distant God but a signaling of an inner mood. God is I AM, the steadfast awareness that witnesses every thought and sensation. When you suffer you are living inside a belief that this awareness has turned away. The hiding face is therefore a mental state—an inner weather—produced by a thought you have accepted as true. The Psalm invites you to revise that belief by returning to the truth that you are always visible to your own inner light. By choosing the assumption that your life is under the continual gaze of I AM you dissolve the impression of abandonment and invite harmony to arise in circumstance. In this light oppression becomes a signal to re-enter consciousness rather than a verdict from without. The hidden face reveals itself as the very affection, clarity, and creative power of your own being, steadily present when you cease objecting to the way you feel. Prayer then becomes a deliberate return to the inner presence that never left.