Inner Defense as Rock of Refuge

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this verse reveals that defense and refuge are not found in outward circumstance but in the state of awareness. The LORD is not a distant fortress but your own I AM, the living thought that steadies you. When you feel threatened, you can return to the rock of refuge, an inner immovable ground where perception rests. The word defence becomes an inner decision, a choice of consciousness that you are safe in your own being, regardless of appearances. The I AM acts as a silent shelter, absorbing fear and shaping circumstance through imagination. See every drumbeat of worry as movement within you, a signal to revise your state to one of invincible calm. In this light, salvation is the ongoing alignment of your inner sense of self with the truth that you are guarded by the most constant presence you can know: awareness itself. Practice the recalling of this truth until it becomes your felt reality in the moment.