Iron Yokes, Sovereign Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah’s line about an iron yoke is not a history lesson but a symptom of your inner state. The 'nations' and even Nebuchadnezzar are personifications of the dominant mental states you have accepted as governing your life. The wood yoke Hananiah broke is the short-lived belief that you can shake off limitation by shouting at it; the iron yoke that remains reveals the deeper, habitual stance of limitation that your imagination has tolerated. In Neville’s terms, the LORD’s word of restraint is really the call to wake from a dream of separation and to assert the I AM as sovereign here and now. The remedy is not fighting external forces but assuming the state of consciousness that already embodies freedom. If you imagine, with feeling as if it is real, that you are the lord of your own inner nation, the outer signs must bend to your inner decree. When you revise the scene inside, the 'yoke' loses its grip, and the mind revives its true sovereignty.