Inner Return of Ezekiel 23:8-10

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the scene as a parable of your own inner life. The 'woman' stands for a state you have indulged—idols of mind, habits that worship forms rather than the I AM within. When you continue in that pattern, you hand yourself over to your 'lovers'—the recurring thoughts and fears that doted on you and now govern your feeling. The exposure of nakedness and the misfortune that follows are not judgments from outside, but inner revelations: your concealed assumptions are made plain by circumstance, so you can see what you have been worshiping. Yet these events are not final doom; they echo a call to change your state of consciousness. The I AM is not a distant judge, but the awareness that can revise itself. By choosing to withdraw allegiance from the old pattern and to return to the one life of God in you, the exile relaxes. The 'return' is the realization that you have never truly left your source; you are being restored to life by the conscious act of turning inward, accepting responsibility, and re-imagining your world from the I AM as sovereign.