Rock Higher Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In this Psalm, the cry is not a plea for change from without but a shift in your state of consciousness. When your heart feels overwhelmed, you are at the edge of your (inner) earth, and the next movement is to be drawn to a rock higher than your present awareness. This rock represents a higher state of consciousness—the I AM—that shelters and towers over every threat. God becomes not a distant person but the awareness you are. To abide in the tabernacle forever is to remain in that increased sense of being, trusting the covert protection of your own divine wings. The verse invites a practical correction: withdraw your attention from the problem and reoccupy the inner fortress of awareness where you are already protected. As you revise your sense of self from victim to perceiver, conditions rearrange to fit the new state. Prayer becomes a turning of the mind into the I AM, a deliberate decision to dwell in the sheltering presence that is always within you.