Desolate Land, I AM Within

Neville's Inner Vision

When Ezekiel speaks of the land of Egypt becoming desolate, consider this a symbol for a mind that has mistook external power for reality. The rivers you worship—the habits, possessions, and positions—are not 'out there' but are the moving thoughts in you that pretend to be life. The LORD proclaims himself against thee, not as punishment but as a wakeful interruption in your dream of lack and control. The desolation from Syene to Ethiopia marks the breadth of patterns that sweep through your awareness when you concede to them. Yet the invitation is simple: the I AM within you is the true sovereign of all imagery. When you realize that awareness itself is carrying the scene, you begin to revise; you do not fight the drought, you change the dream by entering the state that imagines the fulfilled desire as already yours. The moment you know 'I am the LORD' by inner experience rather than by doctrine, the scene rearranges itself, and a new land—rich with inner fountains—appears.