Inner Justice in Micah 3

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, the 'they' of Micah 3:2–3 are inner states of consciousness that hate the good and love the evil, and 'my people' are the living facets of my own being. The graphic language—skins stripped, flesh torn, bones broken—is a symbolic picture of how I, in belief, allow the good to be worn away by fear, judgment, or resentment. When I identify with a forced outer power over others, I dismember unity and feed a caldron of contention within. Yet the text does not condemn an external tribe; it reveals a mental climate I must outgrow. The only oppressor in truth is a thought I have adopted, and the only remedy is the I AM—awareness that remains untouched by those beliefs. As I turn to that I AM, I revise the scene: I replace the savagery with protection, the chopping with healing, and the caldron with the stillness in which all parts may be seen as one. The exile and return describe my journey back to unity, from a consciousness of division to one of justice, mercy, and wholeness within.