Inner Drought to Divine Joy

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the meat offering, the drink offering, and the harvest are not external commodities; they are symbols of your inner altar, your readiness to give, to receive, and to respond to life from the divine mind. When the house of the Lord has no offerings, it means your awareness has forgotten its altar; the priests mourn, because you have turned from faith to fear. The field wasting and the withered vines signify a consciousness drained by belief in lack, a separate self thinking the world controls joy and sustenance. The call to shamed husbandmen and howl of vinedressers is not punishment but a turning inward: attention has wandered from the I AM within, and so your inner feast is postponed. But in Neville's method, all this is present as an opportunity. You can revise the scene by choosing to feed the altar of awareness with the imagination of sufficiency, abundance, and gratitude. See the harvest return: wine, oil, corn; feel the joy dawning again in your heart as if it already is. The drought dissolves as belief shifts to the eternal now.