Quieting Anger, Awakening Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this verse as a posture of consciousness rather than a plea to an external judge. The 'LORD' is the I AM within you—the steady, uncondemning awareness. The heat of 'anger' and the 'hot displeasure' are not forces arriving from above, but movements of your own mind when you forget who you are. To be rebuked or chastened in anger is to identify with a self condemned by past thoughts. Your task, then, is to return to the state of mercy already resident in you. Assume that you are beloved by the I AM, that you cannot be defined by harsh judgments, and that forgiveness is your natural condition. When you feel the impulse to punish yourself, reverse the scene: do not react with fear, but with the knowledge that you are the I AM and mercy is active through you. The verse becomes a call to revision—the inner judgment softened by the consciousness that you are already forgiven and complete.