In The I AM's Hand: Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Joshua not as distant conquest but your higher self in the I AM's presence. The Gibeonites are inner situations that seem threatening, yet they ask to be handled; you spare them and reassign their function. Mercy here means a restructuring of consciousness: what might have been a threat becomes service to the sanctuary. The hand that holds them is your awareness, the I AM shining through; the altar is the inner temple of attention you feed with thoughts and feeling. The assignment to hew wood and draw water represents faculties—memory, imagination, emotion—placed in holy service to sustain worship. The place you choose to erect the altar is your inner chosen sanctuary, not an external city. Welcome every appearance as a servant, not a foe, and allow awareness to direct its use. This is awakening: integrating every facet of self into the single act of worship, as you live from the I AM here and now.