New Heart, New Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true Israel is your state of consciousness. God is the I AM within you, and Ezekiel's call to repent is a call to re-affirm a higher image of yourself. When you repent, you do not appease an angry deity; you reorient your inner dispositions so that the mental atmosphere of your life shifts. To 'turn from all your transgressions' is to withdraw attention from the old habits and the old identification with failure. Cast away those transgressions; that is, refuse to act from the old images. Then 'make you a new heart and a new spirit'—this is the birth of a new state of awareness, a new inner weather that lives in you as your continuous awareness. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth: the dying is your old self ceasing to be when you stop identifying with it, and you turn to live in the truth of your I AM. The invitation is to claim life here and now by inhabiting the renewed consciousness. When you hold this new state, your outer circumstances align with it.