Mercy By Inner Work

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Lord not as a distant judge but as the I AM that is your own awareness. The line Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy declares that mercy is not earned from without but drawn from within. When you assume, in consciousness, that you are worthy of mercy and that your life is governed by a loving intelligence, you set the inner cause. The clause for thou renderest to every man according to his work reveals the law of inner causation: your present conditions are but the fruit of the inner movements you have entertained—imagination, feeling, expectation. Therefore, mercy is available to you in proportion to the fidelity of your inner work. If you dwell in forgiveness, compassion, and faith in a benevolent I AM, you will experience the corresponding mercy in your world; if you persist in fear or judgment, you will invite results that mirror that state. The Psalm invites you to reverse the outer through the inner: claim mercy by becoming mercy in consciousness, and observe how the outer rendered scene aligns with that state. Mercy becomes your natural atmosphere when you acknowledge the I AM within as the source of all gracious action.