Purging Inner Altars: 2 Kings 23:12

Neville's Inner Vision

On the surface the verse shows a king who pulverizes altars and casts their dust into the Kidron. The inner drama, however, is the shaping of your own consciousness. The altars on the top of the upper chamber are your fixed beliefs—Manasseh’s innovations of fear, pride, and false worship you have sanctified in mind. When Josiah downs them, the act is not destruction of stone but surrender of images that keep you from seeing the I AM, the Presence within. The two courts of the house of the LORD symbolize the two classes of habit in your mind: the outward forms and the inward commitments that support them. Casting the dust into the brook Kidron becomes a washing of vibration, a release from the old imaginative pattern that fed those idols. By erasing them you create a vacuum that invites the Presence to dwell. The inward king’s act is faith in your own capacity to worship rightly, to choose a single line of awareness over a multitude of competing pictures. In that moment you enthrone true worship and discover holiness as the felt reality of your own I AM.