Inner Offerings, Outer Stewardship

Neville's Inner Vision

Nehemiah’s words describe an inner economy, a covenant of consciousness. The firstfruits, offerings, and tithes are not about coins; they are your states of attention and feeling offered to the priests of your inner temple. The dough and the fruit of trees symbolize newborn thoughts and favorable circumstances you bring into the chambers of the house of God—the arena of your awareness. The Levites, representing the governing faculties in you, must receive these offerings so the temple treasury—the storehouse of your life—remains well supplied. When the priest of Aaron stands with the Levites, the tithe of the tithe is carried back to the sanctuary; this is your inner circulation: give energy, return nourishment to the atmosphere of your consciousness, and the divine presence stays. To not forsake the house of our God is to refuse to abandon the inner shrine when outer conditions press. In practice, remember I AM as the sole governor of all, and imagine that the I AM receives your gift, the inner temple fills with light, and your provisions follow your state; your worship becomes your reality.