Ahab's Shadow Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's inner hearing, the narrative is not about a distant monarch but about the states of consciousness you entertain. 'Walking in the way of the house of Ahab' is a description of habit—an egoic pattern that you accept as true and act from as if it were you. The 'house of Ahab' stands for self-will, fear, and worship of appearances, a lineage you have inherited through thought and feeling. When it says 'for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab,' it is pointing to how relationship—your ties to a pattern—enhances its pull, until you believe you are bound to it. The LORD is your inner awareness; when you yield to the old pattern, you momentarily dim that light. Yet consciousness is creative: you can revise from within, and the external event changes because the inner state changes. I AM, the awakening sense of being, does not judge but redefines. By assuming the opposite state—certainty in the I AM, faithfulness to truth, and detachment from fear—you displace the ancestral pattern and begin to live from a new kingdom. Your life will reflect that inward orientation, not the old lineage.