Inner Fortresses of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Your mind, not a forsaken city, stands at the center. The king of Babylon's army is the pressure from the external world, and Jerusalem is the inner awareness, the living scene of I AM. Lachish and Azekah are not distant places but entrenched habits and defenses you still hold in consciousness. The passage notes that these fortified cities remained as if most of the land had yielded; so it is with your ego's stubborn patterns that survive under stress. The outer siege is a mirror of inner movement; fear, need, and judgment press at the gates of attention. But the true reality is that the I AM within you existed before the siege and remains unaffected by the outcome of the fight. The Kingdom of God is not a place to reach but a state of awareness you awaken to within, even as storms rage. Exile and return occur as you shift your identification from "I am besieged" to "I AM," the constant, unshaken witness who sees the siege and calls it forth to pass.