Inner Sacrifice, Outer Restoration

Neville's Inner Vision

The setting is not a distant battlefield but your own state of consciousness. Araunah's generosity symbolizes worldly ease, a gift that costs nothing and asks nothing in return. David's reply - I will buy it at a price - is a declaration that the I AM within you will not worship with borrowed energy but must invest in its own state. The threshing floor becomes the cleared ground of thought where you stand to make a real offering; the oxen and wood are the fuel you allocate to your inner altar. When you offer sacrifices that cost you, you demonstrate a commitment to a higher tune of awareness, and the Lord's face seems to turn toward you. The plague in the land mirrors disturbances in your inner life, which recede when you willingly pay the price in imagination and feeling. So the Lord is entreated for the land when consciousness holds still and declares, I AM present, I AM responsible, I AM the price paid. Your inner restoration follows as the mind forges peace by a genuine, costly worship.