Inner Rest and the Ark Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened imagination, the verse whispers that the true forenoon of God is not a distant city but a state of awareness you locate inside. Hearing about Ephrath and finding it in the fields of the wood becomes the moment you notice where attention naturally settles when you stop chasing an outside rest. The ark of thy strength is your idea, the organizing principle of life, and its footstool is your own attentive posture. Going into His tabernacles is stepping into the quiet temple of I AM, worship not as ceremony but as reverent attention—feeling your consciousness attend to every sensation as if it were sacred. When you arise, you do so into a rest that already exists as your natural condition; you are not convincing God, you are remembering who you are. This is covenant loyalty: remaining in alignment with the one Life, until outer events reflect the inner peace. Practice is simple: assume you are already at rest in God, and let the inner sense of being the ark of strength establish your day.