Full-Price Worship Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the land and the altar are not places in history but states in you. David's insistence on paying the full price shows that cleansing, healing, and true worship arise only when you are willing to invest your whole consciousness—not a cheap token. The 'plague' is the problem moving through your life, a sensation of lacking, a sense of separation from the I AM. When you mentally purchase the ground, and there build an altar unto the LORD in your imagination, you are declaring that the inner state has already answered the call. Ornan's gifts symbolize external aids; yet David says, no—only what I purchase with my full fervor is acceptable to God within. So the act of paying full price is not about money but about your willingness to become, to assume, to feel the reality as if it has already occurred. In this, the decree is done by you, in your present consciousness, and the plague is stayed as you dwell in that finished scene.