Grounded Staff, Inner Fire

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through Neville’s lens, Isaiah’s lines describe your inner kingdom at work. The 'grounded staff' is your fixed awareness, the I AM that keeps attention steady and purposeful. When the LORD lays this staff upon you, you are not being punished but invited to align every thought with your true ruler. The 'tabrets and harps' symbolize inner harmonies that arise when you consent to this alignment and let feeling follow thought. The 'battles of shaking' are the clearing storms of old belief, the mind’s shaking loose of what has constrained you. Tophet, ordained of old, signals the purifying fire that prepares the king within by burning away attachment to the former self. The 'pile' of fire and the breath of the LORD kindle this transformation; the Spirit’s breath is the active fervor that intensifies your resolve. You are not fleeing; you are awakening to the sovereign you, letting the old kingdom burn so the inner king is established. Your work is to assume the state of I AM and let the changing weather reveal a transformed consciousness here and now.