Inner Siege, Outer Providence

Neville's Inner Vision

Shishak and his army are symbols, not history, but states of consciousness invading the inner city. Jerusalem is the I AM within you, the awareness that cannot be conquered by outer power when it abides in God. The fifth year signals a season when old belief-system membranes thin and fear gains a reprieve to march, bringing chariots of doubt and horses of habit. The numbers from Egypt—the Lubims, Sukkiims, Ethiopians—represent the myriad mental attachments you have allowed to travel with you, the unconscious motives that drain your certainty. When the fenced cities of Judah fall and Jerusalem comes under siege, it reveals that your outer defenses crumble when you have ceased to trust the inner covenant with God. But the eternal law remains unchanged: revamp the inner state, assume the awareness that you are one with the LORD, and let the fear be revised out of your system. Practice by closing your eyes and imagining the invasion dissolving into light, the walls of your mind returning to perfect unity. Feel it real that you stand in the city of God, unassailable by any outside power.