Be Still, Know God Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Take these words as a map of inner states. When the heathen rage and kingdoms tremble, the earth melts because external appearances yield to the fact that consciousness is sovereign. The 'LORD of hosts is with us' becomes your felt sense of presence—the unshakable refuge you can inhabit in quiet awareness. The desolations the Lord has wrought in the earth are inner rearrangements, not vandalism upon the world; they reveal that your attention, not the world, causes events. When he 'maketh wars to cease' and 'breaketh the bow,' you are loosening fear-born habits and waking to stillness, letting the fiery inner light dissolve old weaponry of thought. 'Be still, and know that I am God' is the knowing that your awareness is God in operation right now; to exalt in the earth is to allow your state of consciousness to exude peace, regardless of outward scenes. Remain in this sovereignty and the outer scene will align to reflect that inner truth.