Earth Altar Within: Naaman's Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that Naaman's request for two mules' burden of earth is not a geographical affair but a declaration of inner ground. In Neville's language, each stone and soil corresponds to a state of consciousness you can carry into your worship. The earth becomes the portable altar of awareness, a substrate on which the I AM may stand wherever you are. By asking for earth, Naaman signals that the ground of his feeling and imagination must be stable, not adrift in the worship of other gods—those outside powers or fixed habits. Your true altar is not a temple built of wood but the defined sense of “I Am” that stands beneath every thought, choice, and image. When you say, in effect, ‘I will worship the LORD within,’ you perceive that the old worship (fear, need, limitation) is a made-up god, and the one reality is the I AM; the rest dissolves into memory. The soil you carry is your consistent possibility—your confidence, your faith that you can align with the divine order now, here, as if it were already done.