Inner Kingship Of Psalm 72

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm, the king is not a political man only but the inner ruler of consciousness—the I AM that governs all thought. 'Thy judgments' and 'thy righteousness' are the standards by which I measure every breeze of thought and feeling. When I, as the king's son, align with that divine justice, I do not judge from fear but from the quiet authority of love; I judge the 'poor' in me—those neglected, anxious, and neglected impulses—with compassionate discernment, until they are granted their rightful place. The mountains and little hills are not distant places but states of my own mind. When my inner king moves in accord with righteousness, outer conditions settle into peace; the agitation of the outer world yields to the calm of inner order. 'He shall judge the poor... and shall break in pieces the oppressor' speaks of the old belief that I am powerless; as I assume the end that I am the sovereign I AM and that divine justice operates through me, the oppression of limitation dissolves. In this inner economy, mercy is the law, and justice radiates into every relationship.