Inner Borders of Amos 6:2

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine a map of kingdoms drawn across the interior of your mind: Calneh, Hamath, Gath—the very names become states of awareness. Amos asks you to pass from one city to another, as if you are moving through dispositions of thought. Yet the question is not which empire possesses greater borders, but whose picture of yourself holds the greater claim. In Neville's terms, these kingdoms are not distant rulers but the images you accept as real: fear, pride, limitation, achievement, pride, lack. When you compare yourself to the Philistines or any foreign power, you are rehearsing a scene in which your sense of identity is defined by something outside you. The only border that matters is the I AM you cultivate within. If you feel safer, stronger, richer, or freer, it is because you have revived a state of consciousness that does not perish with a change of geography. The Divine I AM is the one true sovereign; your imagination is its instrument. The moment you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and dwell there, the outer world aligns with your inner decree. The prophecy is none other than your inner alignment becoming your external order.