Seven Days Before The Word

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the scene is not merely historical; it is the inner turning of consciousness. Ezekiel’s astonishment represents the mind suspended between a worn identity and the birth of a new direction. The exile by the river Chebar is the inner sense of separation you experience when old stories no longer fit, a fertile desert in which a new word may appear. The seven days of stillness are a symbolic gap in which the I AM, the One who you truly are, gathers itself into expectancy. Then, at the end of the period, the word of the LORD comes—an event in consciousness, not a distant decree. The word is not spoken to an external audience but embedded in Ezekiel’s awareness, inviting him to reinterpret exile as vocation rather than punishment. In Neville’s terms, the word is a revision of self, a shift of state from lack to fulfillment, from confusion to mission. To apply this, you must not seek the word outside, but assume the existence of the word now, feel as though the Word has already spoken you into your new function, and rest attentively within that I AM.