Inner Vows And Divine Wrath

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a state of consciousness, the words reveal that the wild energy you call wrath can be rearranged by your awareness. The 'wrath of man' is the ego’s insistence on its own script; when you recognize the I AM that you are, that energy is summoned to move in praise rather than in resistance. The line that the remainder of wrath shall be restrained is your internal law: you decide where attention goes, and you set the tempo of your life by the level of consciousness you maintain. The call to 'Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God' is not a ritual apart from you, but a decision of being—an assumption that you are already in covenant with the governing presence that you call God. The command that all around him bring presents to him that ought to be feared translates as your inner atmosphere reflecting your reverence: what you fear yields offerings of gratitude, trust, and generous living. Ultimately, to interpret this psalm is to recognize that perception shapes reality: when you assume the Lord is central, the world yields praise.