Inner King, Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

David stands as the alive, inner king within consciousness, and the Amalekite is a stray thought daring to dethrone that king. The LORD's anointed is the I AM—the true self-ruled ruler of your inner kingdom. To stretch forth the hand against the anointed is to imagine you can overpower the living sense of self; the question spoken to the messenger asks where such power originates and what authority it claims. The reply reveals the dream as a belief that life could be taken from the king, a belief the psyche must own. The subsequent act--David's summons to fall upon him and the declaration that the blood is on the messenger's head--means the mind recognizes the cost of entertaining such thoughts: all crime against the inner order returns to the holder of the thought. Yet this is not punishment; it is substitution of sight--seeing that the inner king is untouched by the outside strike. When I dwell in the I AM, the stray voice loses its force, and the true sovereignty remains intact. The question becomes: whose thought is this, and what does the inner life choose to affirm?