Inner Judgment and Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

All the outer talk of enemies and punishment in this psalm is a map of your inner weather. In Neville’s terms, the 'they' are inner dispositions—fear, doubt, pride—that feel like others pressing upon you. 'Escape by iniquity?' points to the old habit of seeking safety through wrong thoughts or actions. Yet the law you live by is not punishment from without but the shifting of your own consciousness. 'In thine anger cast down the people' becomes a cue that anger—your resistance—will dissolve as you align with the I AM. When you rest in God as the I AM, these fluctuations collapse; judgment gives way to restoration because you no longer react as if there were separate forces acting upon you. The world you observe is a mirror of your inner state, and mercy is simply the natural tone of a mind that accepts its unity with divine consciousness. Your task is to assume the true state: I AM; I inhabit a just, merciful order.