Deliverance Beyond The Waters

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the waters are states of consciousness, not literal seas. The psalmist sinks when he forgets the I AM, the one awareness that is always holding him above the flood. To be saved, then, is not to escape geography but to return to the inner sight that can command any climate of mind. When I imagine, I am saved now, I reverse the currents: the deep mire and deep waters recede because my sense of self has shifted from lack to fullness. The cry of weariness is the call to revise, not to endure forever. The eyes that fail are simply the indicator that I have looked outward too long; I turn within and rest in the immutable truth that God is my awareness, my present possibility. In this inner visitation, the delays dissolve; the floods lose their authority; I am sustained by the I AM that never leaves or abandons. The psalmist's travail becomes a signpost: the moment I awaken to consciousness as the sole cause, deliverance is already accomplished in me.