Inner Return of the King

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses are not about a political scene on ancient borders; they are about your inner state when the sense of kingship leaves the inner realm. The people quarrel because the I AM in you has fled under the sway of Absalom’s doubt and fear. The “king” is your waking consciousness, the steady, choosing awareness that can save you from the Philistine tribulations of fear, lack, and regret. When the king flees the land, your awareness is in exile; when Absalom is dead in battle, the old dream that you are not king dies, but the question remains: will you call the king back? The true passage is to acknowledge that the kingdom is always within, and the “return” must begin as a assumption—the assumption that you are now in the king’s throne. The conflict among tribes becomes the inner resistance to the realization that you are already complete, lacking nothing, and that the power to save yourself lies in your one undivided I AM. When you re-present the king’s presence, you heal the rift and bring the whole nation of self into unity.