River Within: Inner City of God

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse, the river is not a stream on the map but the ceaseless motion of your I AM—the awareness that you are, here and now. The city of God is the inner sanctuary you carry, the holy ground where holiness is not a distant temple but a state of consciousness you inhabit. The streams that make glad the city are the flow of thoughts that arrive when you accept that imagination creates reality; every feeling, every image, and every belief nourishes or starves this interior spring. Do not look for the river outside in rain or riverside; see yourself as the river and the river as your life. When you live from the feeling of 'I am,' the streams gladden the inner streets, and the turbulence of fear quiets. Your tabernacles of the Most High are the sanctuaries of awareness you preserve by conscious construction: choose the belief that you are the source and the city glows from within. This is the all-embracing psalm: you are God-aware presence breathing life into your inner world.