Gates of Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the temple stands completed as you appoint the offices of the LORD in your own inner sanctuary. The Levites and priests are your scattered faculties—reason, imagination, memory, feeling—brought into orderly service by the act of assumption. David’s distribution is the remembered pattern of harmony you restore in yourself: each faculty has its appointed post, offering the burnt offerings of the LORD as gratitude and praise. The singing and rejoicing are the natural yet often overlooked inward state that attends a mind convinced of its oneness with God. The gates are not physical doors but the thresholds of attention; Jehoiada's porters at the gates signify the discipline you exercise to prevent ‘uncleanness’—fear, doubt, resentment—from crossing your inner boundary. When you live by this inner ordinance, you align with the inner law of consciousness, and your external conditions reflect the temple's cleanliness. The verse invites you to treat worship as a lived atmosphere inside you, not merely a ritual outside.