Inner Provisions of Nehemiah

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse you stand as the inner governor of your life. The ox, the six choice sheep, the fowls, and the wine are not mere food; they symbolize the abundance your inner state can sustain when you are not ruled by external claims. The bread of the governor represents outer authority trying to set your measure. Nehemiah would not demand it because the bondage of the people—your habit-bound sense of lack—must be dissolved by the mind that knows itself as I AM. When I reflect on this, I see that providing for others without yielding to their demand is true discernment: you are generous, yet you do not feed the incessant appetite of the world at the expense of inner freedom. The numbers point to inner faculties: body, senses, emotions, will; the wine is joy refined, not intoxication. Your practice is to maintain an inner feast and assume success, feeling it real as if it already is; then let mercy govern your outward acts. Align now with the I AM, and know you are already supplied, so justice and compassion preside.