Inner Lament at God's House

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 21:2-3 invites you to see the scene as a mirror of your own consciousness. The house of God is not a place apart but the awareness in which you live; the people's lingering before God represents a moment when attention is held by an inner feeling, not a request for change from without but a call to what you imagine you are. The lament—the weeping and the question—betrays the feeling of separation, a belief that a part of you is missing in the whole. But notice how they address God as the God of Israel, naming a lineage and a destiny; this is your I AM naming a state of wholeness as already present. To reinterpret is to revise that sense of lack into a realized unity. When you assume the fulfilled state, you aren’t begging but harmonizing your inner Israel. Imagination becomes the instrument by which the absent tribe returns, not through force of circumstance but through the assumed reality of fullness. Rest in the awareness that your inner house holds all tribes, and let your feeling tone shift from lack to completion.