Threshold of Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice the scene as a parable of your own consciousness. Gad's visit is the inner command: ascend in imagination to plant an altar where the mind's fear once ruled. Araunah and his gifts symbolize the ready-made beliefs of ease; David's choice to pay a price—fifty shekels of silver—is the decision to value a costly inner shift over a convenient appeasement. In Neville's fashion, the plague is not an event in history but a disturbance in awareness, a contraction of life caused by unconscious identification. By purchasing the threshing floor, David asserts ownership of the ground upon which his life is built, and he acts as the I AM made flesh within his world. The altar becomes the point where imagination and obedience fuse; the LORD's acceptance is the felt assurance that the new state is real because it is anchored in a price paid in consciousness, not in mere sentiment. Thus true worship is an inner act that costs you something you cherish, proving your sense of separation dissolves as you select a higher state.