Inner Temple Renewal: Jeremiah 7:30

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Jeremiah oracle, the outer crime is but a symbol of an inner condition: the house called by my name becomes a theater where abominations are tolerated in consciousness. I am not judging Judah as a people long past; I am beckoned to recognize that every polluting belief—fear, limitation, false image of self—has taken up residence in the sanctuary of my awareness. In Neville's tone, the temple is the self that I AM, and pollution is simply a mis-tuned state of consciousness. The verse asks me to withdraw my attention from abominations and re-claim the sacred space as wholly mine. When I assume that the temple is holy, that which polluted it dissolves as the believed reality collapses under the weight of a new conviction. I am the I AM; this inner act of revision converts pollution into light, and time into a new now. My awareness, not external ritual, defines holiness; by felt reality I restore integrity to the sanctuary within.