Bringing the Letter Before the Lord

Neville's Inner Vision

To Hezekiah, the letter is not a summons from without but a summons from within. The messengers carry words that would make the mind tremble, yet he climbs to the house of the LORD and lays the paper upon the altar of awareness—the One Power in the soul that never falters. In this act, Hezekiah does not beg relief from fate; he revises his state by recognizing the Presence that the letter cannot threaten. The I AM, the Lord within, is the sovereign of all words and outcomes; by reading and spreading the letter before that Presence, he shifts his identification from fear to faith. The scene is a meditation: a conscious choosing of a higher assumption, where the external plan is seen as a projection of inner belief. When the mind holds the awareness that God is nearest and greater than any threat, the imagined future aligns with the divine nature already present. The letter remains as a symbol, but the state of consciousness governs reality.