Inner Reform of Mind and Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the king's work is the discipline of attention. He builds a wall around the city of David, west of Gihon, not to imprison life but to set a firm boundary where no competing image may pass. To remove the strange gods from the house of the LORD is to cast out beliefs that have claimed primacy in your inner temple. When the altar of the LORD is repaired and peace offerings and thank offerings are sacrificed, you align your feeling with your idea, making gratitude the currency by which you measure reality. Command Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel, and so you command every aspect of your mind to bow to truth. Yet the text notes that the people still sacrifice on the high places—habits linger, appearances of worship endure in surface forms while the heart remains tied to prior patterns. The inner revolution must outpace the outward form; you must deepen the inner altar until what you do in memory mirrors what you believe in heart. Your practice is to proclaim the Lord as the sole ruler of your life and to cultivate the consciousness that worship is a daily act, not a ritual of place.