Inner Comfort in Night's Psalm

Neville's Inner Vision

To the clairvoyant heart, the cry in Psalm 77:2 reveals not a plea to a distant deity, but the state of consciousness you live when you mistake your circumstance for the truth. The 'day of trouble' is the waking condition of your mind that forgets the I AM, and the 'sore' that runs in the night is the continuous movement of an unassured self-image. In Neville's language, God is not out there but within as the I AM—the awareness that feels and thinks. When your soul 'refuses to be comforted,' you are clinging to a belief that you are separate from the source of peace. The cure is to assume the presence you know as I AM, and to revise the inner weather by imagining yourself already in possession of what you seek: comfort, steadiness, relief. Do not beg; assume. Begin to feel the still, untroubled I AM sustaining you, and night becomes a stage on which the inner light declares itself. This is faith: not hoping for comfort, but living as the comfort already established.