Inner Bethel Luz Renewal

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the psychological map of Judges, Bethel is the sanctuary of awareness, the place where I AM conscious presence stands. The house of Joseph descrying Bethel is your mind turning toward that inner city, while Luz is the old sense of separation that still lingers as memory. The man who steps out represents a portion of your consciousness that can point you to the entrance; you offer mercy to him—an act of forgiving the past that would keep you outside the city. Yet the city is struck and only the mercy remains in the scene, teaching that true renewal is an inner movement, not a ruinous erasure. The traveler who returns to the land of the Hittites and re-names Luz signals that old limitations may persist as memory, but the creative power of Bethel—the dwelling place of God within—has been awakened. Your task is to perceive that every apparent destruction of the old self is the turning of attention inward, where the I AM builds a truer city. The verse invites you to live from the awakened inner city, where Luz is transfigured by the reality you assume in imagination.