The Costly Worship Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the king as your I AM, and Araunah as the surface self that would offer you ease without consequence. David’s refusal of a gratis sacrifice and his choice to buy at a price is a declaration that awakening is not cheap or accidental; it is a decision you make with your entire consciousness. Costly worship is not a display of wealth but a discipline of mind: you place value on awareness by investing something from your present energy—time, attention, feeling—into an inner altar. The threshing floor is the clearing where you separate the seed of possibility from the husks of distraction; the oxen are your faculties yoked to purpose. When you say I will surely buy it, you affirm ownership of your experience and declare that life must be impressed by your current focus. The price, fifty shekels, is symbolic of the price you are willing to pay with your existing momentum. In this inner act, God—your I AM—moves through your disciplined imagination, turning a willing purchase into manifested reality, and you discover a covenant not by chance but by conscious, costly worship.