Inner Renewal in Isaiah 61:3-4

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, Zion is the awareness in which I AM reveals itself. To mourn in Zion signals a state you can revise by turning to the feeling that you are already renewed. The ashes you hold vanish as you assume beauty. The oil of joy for mourning appears when you linger in a scene of joy until it feels natural. The garment of praise is your voluntary attire in the mind—when heaviness comes, you respond with praise as if it is your immediate mood. You are called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, meaning your inner nature is rooted in divine life and bears fruit. They shall build the old wastes; they shall raise up former desolations—this is your inner construction project, begun in consciousness and reflected outward as you persist in this new state. The desolations of many generations fade as your sense of self expands and the world bends to your inner conviction.