Gibeon Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 3 invites us to see the high place not as a hill in the land but as a state of consciousness. Solomon and the people ascend to the tabernacle of God, the sanctuary Moses set up in the wilderness, and that image becomes a symbol for the inner sanctuary we all carry. In Neville's psychology, the congregation represents the gathering of our states of mind; the ascent is the decision to dwell in a higher I Am. The tabernacle is the Presence within, and God is the Presence you awaken through imagination. The wilderness memory of lack is not a prison but a backdrop against which awareness can choose abundance by covenant loyalty to the truth of your own being. True worship, then, is not external rite but faithful alignment with the inner reality you intend to live. When you persist in that inner alignment, the outer scene shifts to reflect the sanctuary you have already created in consciousness, and prayers become the feeling of the wish fulfilled as now.