Altar on Mount Ebal

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the outward act of Joshua is echoed inwardly. In Neville's voice: When you read 'Joshua built an altar,' hear it as you building an altar within your own mind—the steady, unwavering worship of the I AM that you are. Mount Ebal stands not as a geographic place but as a fixed state of consciousness, a hill you ascend to remind yourself of your covenant relation with God—the living Presence that you are. The altar is the daily act of reaffirming your identity with that Presence; it is you acknowledging, through feeling and intention, that God is the power and presence that supports you. Altar-building becomes a discipline of loyalty: you refuse to negotiate with the sense of lack and instead consecrate your inner life to the truth that you are the I AM, now and always. By detaching from mundane belief and inhabiting that inner sanctuary, the world’s events begin to reflect your covenant fidelity—the faithful response of life to the inner declaration.