Inner Sabbath Fire: Jeremiah 17:27

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the Sabbath not as a day you keep, but as a state you inhabit. The I am within you says hallow this inner rest, and you will not permit the tide of burden to flood your gates. The fire forewarned in the text is not punishment apart from you; it is the consequence of an unsettled consciousness that keeps acting as if time and duty are warring against you. To revise is to switch your attention from the external timetable to the silence within, where you are the city and the gates are the openings of awareness. When you choose to treat the moment as sacred, you seal the gates, and the imagined flames cannot take root. Your palaces are your higher faculties—intelligence, peace, love—and they stand when you maintain the Sabbath as a daily discipline of consciousness. Imagination is the fire that lifts, or burns, depending on what you feed it. Feed it with stillness, and Jerusalem remains safe within you.