Desolation to Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos speaks of desolate high places and ruined sanctuaries, yet this is not punishment imposed from without. It is the inner movement of your consciousness. The high places are the towering beliefs you keep about yourself—your self-image lifted up by idols of success, safety, and control. The sanctuaries are the inner temples where you pretend you must earn love and approval. Jeroboam's house is the old self—an ego that worships separation and fears punishment. When I read this, I hear the sword: the divine judgment by awareness that cuts away the false worship. The desolation of these inner shrines clears the ground for the true worship of life as One, here and now. The moment you refuse to identify with the old idols and instead dwell in the I AM, the entire landscape changes. What Amos declares as ruin becomes the door to a rebuilt sanctuary in your own consciousness, a temple where you recognize that you are not condemned but called into greater unity with the Source within you.