Inner Justice in Genesis 18:23-25

Neville's Inner Vision

View the scene as a map of your inner life. The city stands for your overall state of consciousness, and the righteous within are the purified faculties that align with your I AM. Abraham’s approach is not a plea to an external sovereign but a turning toward your own awareness, requesting a revision in belief: that the good you have is not to be destroyed with the bad. The terms ‘destruction’ and ‘destroy’ symbolize old habits of judgment that threaten to annihilate your better self if given over to fear. The ‘fifty righteous’ and the other thresholds symbolize possible degrees of alignment you can imagine, and the question about the Judge doing right is a call to trust your inner governor—the I AM—to order life in righteousness and mercy. When you hear that line, you are being invited to accept that your mind’s decision determines reality; you can choose to let justice prevail in your inner city, not by overbearing force but by a conscious act of compassionate, decisive belief. In this way, the entire drama becomes your own act of inner reform through imagination.