Inner Victory: 2 Samuel 10:15-19

Neville's Inner Vision

To the listener who calls himself I AM, the battlefield is not a distant hill but a chapter in your own consciousness. The Syrians that gather beyond the river are your stubborn beliefs, the chariots and horsemen your habitual fears. When David, the living I AM, is told of their array, you gather all Israel, your faculties united in awareness, and cross Jordan into Helam, the place where momentum shifts from struggle to decisive action. The clash with the enemy is the inner argument between fear and faith, and when the hosts set themselves in array, they are simply the old formations of limitation. They flee; the mighty are slain - the seven hundred chariots, the forty thousand horsemen - by your renewed conviction. Shobach dies as the captain of that army, a symbol of a false leadership within you. And as the kings who served Hadarezer observe the power you hold, they bow to peace. This is the internal peacemaking: the dissolving of organized resistance when you affirm your kingdom now. What follows is fear's retreat, and the children of Ammon find no other ally within your mind.