Inner Altar Awakening in Kings

Neville's Inner Vision

Within each of us, the history of Judah repeats whenever we entertain rival images in place of the one true altar. The text does not merely condemn a nation; it exposes a state of consciousness that multiplies 'high places' in the mind—fixed roles, rituals, and external symbols we worship apart from the I AM. Images and groves are thoughts given power through repetition, a habit of attention that stirs jealousy in God—the living I AM within, not a judge but the awareness that witnesses every desire. When we scatter devotion on every hill of memory, we provoke an inner jealousy: the divine longing for a single, exclusive altar. True worship is not outward form but alignment with the inward truth that I AM, you are, we all are the same I AM manifesting as life. The more you hold to one inner shrine, the more the inner world reflects peace instead of conflict; the ego's wooden idols fall away as the heart returns to its first love.