Within Zion Restored: Isaiah 64:9-10

Neville's Inner Vision

To Isaiah 64:9-10, the Lord is not a distant arbiter but the I AM within you. The plea Be not wroth is the soul requesting alignment with divine nature, and the line 'we are all thy people' declares the unity that makes mercy possible. Your 'holy cities'—Zion, Jerusalem—are not places outside you but states of consciousness that you have allowed to fall into wilderness when you forget who you are. The wilderness is the habit of dwelling in separation, guilt, and memory of past sins. The judgment you fear has no power when you remember that God does not cling to iniquity; the act of forgiving and forgetting is your own decision, a shift in inner state. As you revise, you confide in a new awareness: the I AM remembers only the now, and the desert yields to the light of that presence. When that inner alignment is established, Zion awakens—your sacred centers become vibrant again, and Jerusalem returns as interior peace. The outer world will follow as you hold this mental shift in feeling, seeing, and living as one with God.