Worshiping the Inner Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

Every instrument in 2 Samuel 6:5 is a symbol of the movements of your own consciousness. The ark stands for your innermost awareness, the I AM you call by name. When David and Israel make music before the LORD, they enact a deliberate inner alignment: they choose to dwell in the Presence here and now. In the Neville sense, worship is the act of assuming unity with the divine until that unity becomes the organizing principle of life. The choir's harmony is the psyche's harmony; the timbrels and harps are your different moods and thoughts brought into resonance with a single assumption: I am one with the Presence. The outward procession mirrors your inward state; as you hold to the assumption that God is with you, the outer world follows suit, joy, health, cooperation, and success become natural expressions of that inner truth. Worship is not God pleasing a distant deity but you waking to what you already are. Practice: dwell in gratitude, imagine the Presence filling your entire being, and feel the reality of unity until it reconstitutes your experience.