Desolate Land, Awakening I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Desolation in Ezekiel is not punishment aimed at you; it is the shaking of your inner weather so that old defenses and identifications drop away. The land represents your mind, and when I say I, not God as a separate entity but the I AM, that Mind experiences a stripping away of pomp—the pomp of strength you once trusted—so that the inner pathways become desolate. The mountains of Israel, the fixed habits of thought, stand bare; nothing passes through a tunnel of old fear or pride. Yet this wasteland is precisely where revelation arises: then shall they know that I am the LORD—not as an external deity, but as the living awareness that you are. The desolation clears the way for recognition: your I AM awakens to itself as the LORD of your interior land. The prophecy promises restoration after the trial: love, insight, and a fresh sense of purpose return, not by force but by the inward conversion of your attention to the ONE.