When Ill Will Becomes Its Own Trap

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Psalm, the pit and the ditch are not distant acts of fate but inner images you harbor. The digger is the you who judges another, and the mischief you project becomes the very energy you receive back into your own I AM. When you recognize that God, the I AM, is the consciousness that perceives, you see that the 'return' is not punishment from without but a correction from within—your own thought regressing to a belief you gave it power. Therefore, the remedy is not to change the outer world but to revise the scene in your mind. In this moment, claim a new image: you are unhurt, undisturbed, and the power that shapes experience is your own awareness. As you hold this new assumption, the pit loses its pull; the trap dissolves as the mind renounces the belief that you are the receiver of another's offense. Psalm 7:15-16 thus becomes a practical invitation to govern your inner state, so that what arises externally mirrors your inner calm rather than your past judgments.