Reclaiming Your Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

Shishak is not merely a foreign king but a figure in your inner cinema—fear, lack, or old habits pressing in on your inner temple. Jerusalem is the seat of your awareness, the house of the LORD where God dwells as I AM. When the treasures of that house and the king’s own storehouse are taken, it signals a disruption in your sense of security. Yet the event is not a punitive check on your fidelity; it is a call to revision—an opportunity to discover that the wealth you seek does not belong to outward pomp but to the consciousness that observes. The shields of gold Solomon made symbolize defenses you believed protected you, now exposed as mere external props. The moment of possession loss is the invitation to stop delegating power to circumstances and to return to the inner governor—your I AM—who can replenish by imagination. If you insist on seeing the outer world as primary, you will feel plunder. If you instead claim the eternal temple within, you realize no external army can truly touch your wealth, for it resides in awareness that creates.