The Inner Altar of Trust

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the line does not demand a change of place but a change of state. The 'high places and altars' are your outer habits of thought, the rituals you cling to as if they were safety. When you say, 'We trust the LORD our God,' you are called to worship before this altar—the altar of your present awareness, the I AM that you ARE. Isaiah invites a revision: make your consciousness the temple, and let the old idols crumble in its light. In Neville's terms, imagination creates reality at the I AM level; the visible world is the outward sign of your inner picture. Therefore, the removal of external shrines is not denial but an alignment with inner law: trust becomes a lived sensation, not a ritual. If you stand at the inner altar, the question of loyalty to God dissolves into the steady practice of feeling and assuming the truth. The altar you worship before is not a place but your chosen state of being. When you revise your mind to this reality, the high places fall away and your life becomes the temple where truth is felt and seen.