Joy as Strength in Holy Vision

Neville's Inner Vision

On the surface the passage speaks of a holy day and a command to feast, yet the deeper current runs in my inner state. I am the Tirshatha of my own soul-city, Ezra and the Levites the teachers of my awareness, waking me to the living law as a present reality. When the words of the law rise within me, old sorrows attempt to weep, but I learn to revise them with the truth that the joy of the LORD is my strength. The 'day' is a symbol of a moment of conscious alignment, a sacred instant where I replace grief with gratitude and cultivate a calm, grateful stillness. The command to hold peace shows power comes not from outward circumstance but from the settled presence of God within. As I choose joy, I nourish my inner being and extend abundance to others in imagination, knowing strength flows from a continuous awareness of the divine Presence, not from an outer event.