Chiefs Of Inner Ancestry

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra 8:1 is a report of the chiefs of their fathers who journeyed with me from Babylon under the king's decree. But in the inward mirror, these names symbolize the chiefs of my present states of consciousness— the loyalties, memories, and habits I carry as I move from exile to restoration. The ‘went up with me’ is the I AM within me rising from the Babylon of lack to the promised land of abundance. Artaxerxes the king represents the outward decree of limitation seeming to rule my day; yet the inner throne belongs to the I AM, not to the decree. When I acknowledge these inner leaders and their genealogy, I am not recalling the past but choosing the next step of inner evolution. I, as consciousness, declare the kind of reality I will inhabit by imagining and feeling it already complete. Providence and guidance reveal themselves as I align with the end I desire, and the outer scene bends to fit the inner register. The verse invites me to examine who I am leading inside and how I will lead them into the new creation I want to experience.