Old Age, Inner Strength Awakens

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage: Old age is a state of consciousness, not a bodily timetable. The attacks of enemies are the inner voice of fear telling you you are abandoned. When the psalmist says cast me not off, he is actually demonstrating the art of assuming the I AM presence as already here. To say God hath forsaken him is to interpret a mental event, a belief window, which you may immediately revise by affirming, 'God is near me now.' The request, be not far, becomes a gentle insistence the I AM is within your breathing, your heartbeat, your daily actions. The line 'I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD' is the decision to draw upon divine power as your own, using righteousness and salvation as the fabric of your inner life. Youthful teaching becomes the continuity of truth within, a through-line of demonstration. Now also when I am old, the psalmist proclaims, I will not abandon this inner work; I will extend the empowerment to future generations by living it in present consciousness. The mind, not time, is the arena; the soul's confidence breaks every possible chain.