Inner Joy of Hezekiah's Feast

Neville's Inner Vision

Your chapter presents not a ritual observed outside you, but a declaration of your inner state. The Levites who taught the good knowledge of the LORD are your faculties of awareness teaching you who you are. To eat the feast seven days is to dwell in the continuous awareness of your true abundance. The peace offerings are your goodwill extended to the whole of your being; the confession to the LORD God of your fathers is the acknowledgment of the living, timeless I AM within you. When the whole assembly agrees to keep seven more days, they are agreeing to sustain a long practice of gratitude, and the joy that follows is the inner proof that your consciousness has accepted its own wealth. Hezekiah’s gifts to the congregation symbolize the thoughts you place before your inner God as offerings—enough, more-than-enough. The priests blessing the people is your prayer of blessing out from your I AM, heard in your heavenly temple. The result is a great joy in the inner Jerusalem, unseen by outward eyes, yet as real as your lived experience.