Inner City Reclaimed by I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Jeremiah's city is a temple within you, not a walled fortress of stone. The 'Chaldeans' who come to set fire are the deliberate thoughts you have permitted to be your rulers—roofs offered to Baal and drink offerings poured to other gods are the persistent images you have fed in place of the I AM. To provoke me to anger is to resist the realization that anger is but a movement of your own awareness when you believe you are apart from the one life. The line that 'the children of Israel have done evil from youth' is a confession of entrenched mental habits, a long-standing habit of identifying with fear, lack, or limitation, which in your world manifests as crises or loss. Yet there is a radiant hinge in this text: the awareness that theI AM can reverse the curse as soon as you realize it never left you; you merely forgot. When you consent to be ruled by the I AM, you disarm the idolaters inside and watch the outer city cool and restore itself, not by force but by a shift of consciousness. Return to the throne of your inner temple; your city becomes unburnable.