Inner Temple Offerings

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Nehemiah’s ritual of cast lots and offerings, the outer acts mirror an inner order. The wood, firstfruits, and tithes are not mere money and goods; they are commitments you lay upon the altar of awareness. The house of our God becomes the sanctuary of your own consciousness; the priests and Levites are your faculties of perception and imagination stewarding what you invest. By giving the firstfruits—first thoughts, earliest energies—you set a rhythm that follows a divine law written into your awareness. The law is not distant but present as an inner principle: attention ordered, resources allocated, time reserved for the sacred governor of your life. When you align your life with this inner economy—wood to sustain, firstborn and dough to honor your creative energy, tithes to the treasury of your imagination—you enact stewardship and invite the same order into every scene you inhabit. The act of casting lots becomes a decision of inner will, not fate; the temple becomes your mind, and gratitude becomes the currency that circulates abundance.