Inside the Siege, I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider 2 Kings 25:1-2 as a parable of my inner city. In the ninth year of sovereignty, the tenth month and day mark a fixed point in my awareness when a mighty belief—Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—advances against Jerusalem, my central consciousness, and I fashion forts around it. This siege is not punishment but the turning of attention: an irresistible movement of an old thought trying to hold the field against a newer, truer state. Babylon here is the habit energy of fear, the host of restless thoughts that refuse to yield to the I AM within. The city besieged unto the eleventh year represents the long testing of this inner state until a stronger reality arises. If I interpret the narrative as my own, the essence is clear: the moment I allow a higher state to occupy the throne of my mind, the siege dissolves; exile becomes a rest in the desert of belief and return is the rebuilding of my true city on the rock of consciousness. My Kingdom is the awareness that never leaves.