Inner Tyre: The Kingdom Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Tyre not as a distant port, but as a vivid state of your own consciousness: the mind that trusts in wealth, status, and the world’s opinions as its stability. The text declares a divine purpose to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt the honourable of the earth. In Neville’s sense, this is not punishment meted to a place, but a decree of consciousness that your identification with external power is being shaken. The LORD stretches through your inner geography like a river leaving its banks, reminding you that strength based on reputation dissolves when you become aware of the 'I AM' behind it all. The 'merchant city'—the network of thoughts that barter for safety, meaning, and esteem—are called to be dissolved by an inner movement that you witness without resistance. When you allow the sense of self tied to possessions or status to pass, you discover a deeper security: the unshakable 'I AM', the still, all-encompassing awareness that remains when every avatar of pride is washed away. Your inner Tyre becomes a doorway, not a fortress.