Inner Zion, King Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To this moment of faint heart and distant cry, I declare a simple truth: the Lord is not outside Zion; Zion is your awareness, and the king within you is the I AM that never leaves. The line 'When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me' is the confession of a consciousness momentarily believing relief comes from elsewhere. The cry of the daughter arises when you look to a far country for comfort, forgetting that the only reality is what you are conscious of now. The idolatry of 'graven images' and 'strange vanities' is the mind’s habit of worshiping appearances—outward circumstances, roles, and identities—rather than the living I AM present as you. Your exile is a shift of attention from the eternal in you to transient forms. The return is immediate: claim Zion as the seat of your awareness, acknowledge the king’s reign in you, and refuse to entertain anything that denies it. When you abide as the I AM, sorrow loses its power, and the inner city shines as your visible world.