Presence Drives All Away

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Psalm, the 'presence of God' is not a distant event but the very field of awareness you enter. When smoke is driven away and wax melts before fire, think of your thoughts and fears as the smoke and wax—material appearances that yield to the consuming light of I AM. The wicked perish at the presence of God because their claims are dissolved by the unwavering consciousness that you are that Presence. The contrast between decay and joy is a reminder that you choose the state you occupy. If you feel loss, lack, or judgment, you are not being oppressed by the world but by a mis-timed identification with a lesser you. Rejoicing is the natural condition of the Self that knows itself as God-in-action, the I AM reigning in you here and now. Practice entering the inner court where nothing fights for survival; allow the sense of divine presence to fill the space until your thoughts dissolve into one bright, unceasing awareness. In that moment, you become the righteous who rejoice.