Inner Zion: Turned Captivity

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 126 reveals that the true exodus is internal. When the I AM turns the captivity of Zion, your consciousness awakens from a bondage of limitation into a life of freedom. The dreamlike astonishment—our mouths filled with laughter and our tongues with singing—occurs when you recognize that the LORD hath done great things for you inside your own being. The LORD here is the I AM within, not an external power, and the celebrated works arise as evidence of your inner release. Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south, invites a continual flow of grace through your mind — a stream that nourishes faith, replaces dryness with abundance, and washes away the belief in lack. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy points to the patient cultivation of a new belief; you plant by feeling and conviction, and the harvest of joy is realized in the present awareness, not postponed to some future moment. The psalm asks you to live from that turned state, to let joy confirm the truth your inner sight already knows.