Inner Gates of Blessing

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through the Neville lens, the words are not about a distant nation but about your inner kingdom. The 'tribes' are states of consciousness—hope, fear, gratitude, patience—ascending to the testimony of Israel, which is your inner witness to the Lord within. To go up is to elevate awareness toward thanksgiving, to lift your mind to acknowledge the One I AM as the source of all ruling. The 'thrones of judgment' are not external judges but the fixed standards your imagination has accepted as true: the royal house of David is the ruling pattern of consciousness you have installed in your mind, the kingly functions of order, discipline, and justice that govern feeling and perception. When you choose to align with the I AM, you are seating truth on the throne, and your outer life follows as a reflection. This Psalm invites you to shift from reaction to rule— to know that you are the sovereign who testifies to the Lord by the quality of your inner state. Your worship becomes true worship when gratitude and authority reside in you, not in a temple elsewhere.