Countenance That Burns Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Take Psalms 80:16 into the inner theater: the 'fire' is the call of awareness that consumes any belief not aligned with I AM. 'It is burned with fire' speaks to the shedding of old, untrue states; 'it is cut down' is the pruning of detours of the imagination that keep you from your unity with God. 'They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance' means when you turn your attention to the I AM, the old selves—the doubts, fears, and rival images—disintegrate under the light of awareness. Your inner world is not fixed but reorganized by presence. The countenance is not a person but the embodiment of awareness that declares, You are; you exist as I AM. The moment you accept that you are the witness and not the victim, the inner fire does its work, and the stray branches of fear are pruned away. In Neville's manner, reality is your assumption: if you assume the I AM as your primary state, your life is burned clean of unbelief and replanted with truth.