Desolation to Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Micah 6:16 speaks of clinging to the old statutes of Omri and the works of Ahab, and of walking in their counsels; therefore the Lord says desolation will come, and the people will bear reproach. In Neville’s parlance, these are not external rulers but inner statutes—habits of thought and image that govern the state of consciousness. When you identify with such old kings, you imprison your awareness in a desolate landscape where imagination is used to justify limitation and fear. The moment you assent to those patterns, you invite a hissing within—the feeling that you are cut off from your true self and from the I AM. But the inner kingdom remains intact, awaiting your act of revocation. The verse is a clarion call to unseat counterfeit governors and place the I AM at the helm. By imagining a new allegiance—one inner law replacing the old idols—you dissolve the desolation and replace it with a shining sense of being that is intact, suffused with trust, and guided by inner counsel. Your true worship is obedience to that inner truth, not to outward inherited patterns.