Inner Governance of Jeremiah 40:7

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the field captains as the steady, governing faculties of your mind—your beliefs about power, control, and fate. The king of Babylon is the recurring dream that outer conditions impose your inner life. Gedaliah, the governor, represents a fresh, personal decision to rule from within. The men, women, and little ones left in the land are the dispersed memories, desires, and talents still resident in you, not yet carried away by fear. When the rulers hear of this inward appointment, a clear line of authority arises: you choose a new state of consciousness and entrust it with the land of your awareness, even the parts that felt neglected or powerless. This is not an external political event but a return of your Kingdom of God into daily life. The obedient action is to align your inner governor with the I AM - the sense of 'I am' that cannot be moved by circumstance. Judgment and accountability appear as you watch what you resist and what you accept; by revision and feeling real you establish a new governance, and what follows is not exile but return, peace, and creative action arising from within.