The Inner King of Psalm 74

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, the Psalm speaks of an inner sovereignty: God is my King of old, the I AM that rules from within. Salvation is not a far-off event but the immediate movement of consciousness when I claim authority over my inner sea. The sea divided by strength becomes the disciplined energy of attention I marshal; the heads of dragons and leviathan are the fears and stubborn beliefs I dissolve by unwavering conviction. When I imagine the thing I desire as already given, the heads break off and the wilderness becomes a feast for the inhabitants of my mind—scarcity transmuted into abundance. Cleaving the fountain and the flood, I dry up droughts of doubt; I allow the flow of life to be guided by the Word within. The day is mine, the night is mine, for I have prepared the light and the sun through a felt realization. I set the borders of my earth—the seasons, the cycles—by the certainty that my I AM governs all, here and now, in present awareness.