Presence Over Fear

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm the so-called enemies are not external beings alone; they are states of consciousness—pride, fear, and aggression that rise within you when you forget who you are. When it says the proud have risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought my soul, hear it as a call to the inner drama: keep the I AM before your gaze. The I AM is not a distant deity but your own awareness, the constant witness that can revise any scene. If you imagine you are opposed, you have allowed the image to govern you; if you instead imagine the presence of God standing before you as the ruling reality, the outward protest loses its assumed power. The so-called enemies vanish when you insist on the truth that your soul—your inner awareness—belongs to the presence that cannot be touched by fear, pride, or violence. In that stance, you are untouched, certain, and whole, and the world reflects that certainty back to you.