Present to Mount Zion Within

Neville's Inner Vision

All the words of this verse are states of consciousness offered to the one I am. The 'present' is not a material gift but your current inner condition—humble, scattered in thought, peeled of pride by experience. To bring it to the LORD of hosts is to acknowledge that the I AM in you is the ruler of all rivers and lands within. The nation 'terrible from their beginning' is the memory of limitation, the old identity you have worn since your dawn. The 'rivers have spoiled' your land represents the rushing impressions of fear, doubt, and lack that despoil your inner field. Yet the verse points to a rendezvous at the mount of the name of the LORD of hosts—the inner Zion where God is acknowledged as your awareness, your present I AM. When you mentally present your current state to that LORD, you shift allegiance from the ego's picture to the I AM that never leaves you. The exile dissolves, because you are not changing the world but changing your center of consciousness.