Inner Kingdom Confronts Bold Boasts

Neville's Inner Vision

To read these verses through Neville’s lens, the boastful king is not a distant empire but a state of consciousness within you. God is the I AM, the unwavering awareness that gives form to every image. Sennacherib's boast of mountains scaled, cedars felled, and rivers dried represents a fixed identity insisting I am in control, apart from the divine. The mountains, Lebanon, and the trees symbolize entrenched pride and the sense of separate power you imagine when you forget your unity with God. The line about digging strange waters and drying up rivers shows the emotional drain that occurs when you believe in a future threat; fear dries life from your experience. The phrase long ago invites you to remember a higher fact: there is only the I AM governing all scenes. The remedy is not to battle the foe but to revise the scene from the vantage point of divine sovereignty. Assume that you, as awareness, have already dissolved the supposed power of the siege. Feel the relief as the imagined army dissolves, replaced by a quiet certainty that the present I AM governs every event. Your world shifts as you dwell in this inner fact.