The Inner City of God

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 48:8-10 proclaims that what you heard you now perceive - the city of the LORD in the city of our God, established forever in your consciousness. The words are not about place but about states of awareness that have become visible to the inner eye. When you allow the imagination to stand within the temple of yourself and think upon God's lovingkindness, you are lifting your heart into an already established city, a realm with a right hand full of righteousness. The 'as we have heard, so have we seen' becomes a discipline: hear the truth in silence, then claim its reality by feeling it as present. Your praise, named after the One you acknowledge, travels beyond walls and ages, accomplishing through your inner state what the outer world calls history. The right hand - your active faculty - moves in alignment with this righteousness, shaping actions that echo the inner decree. In this light, worship is not ritual; it is the conscious homecoming to a state that eternally exists.