Inner Gathering and Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Turn your attention to the I AM, and observe the inward geography of Nehemiah 1:9. The promise does not say God will rescue a distant people; it says you may turn, align, and the gathering will occur within the orbit of your own consciousness. Exile is not a place but a state of separation from the awareness of your true self. If you keep the commandments, not as external rules but as living principles within you—justice, mercy, fidelity to your own I AM—then the scattered fragments return. I imagine the farthest exile as a memory of self-forgetfulness; when I return to the I AM, God gathers me from the uttermost heaven, which is merely the farthest reach of attention I have given to fear, doubt, or lack. The chosen place is the inner home where name and essence meet; it is not a building, but the steadiness of feeling that I am seen, held, and named by God within. This is not about history but about the inner discipline that causes revelation to spring.