The Water of Inner Devotion

Neville's Inner Vision

David's longing is not for water alone but for the state of being that water represents: wholeness here and now. In Neville's psychology, longing signals a present lack that your I AM is ready to fulfill when embraced as a state of consciousness. The well by the gate stands for a reservoir of supply available in your own inner awareness. The three mighty men: faith, courage, and obedience, break through the Philistine siege of doubt to fetch this nourishment. They symbolize the inner acts that bring you into alignment with your true self. When David receives the cup, his decision to pour it out to the LORD declares that the source of true sustenance is not the water itself but the reverent recognition that all provision flows from God within you, the living I AM. The ritual of offering converts a temporary longing into a permanent state of awareness. Your practice, then, is to imagine you already possess the thing you crave, and to release it as sacred devotion to your I AM, thereby dissolving the sense of separation and inviting fullness here and now.