Inner Sanctuary Desolation

Neville's Inner Vision

Your sanctuary is not bricks and mortar but the state of your awareness. When the text speaks of enemies roaring in the congregation, it describes the voices of doubt and fear that rise within you, as if they own your attention. The axes and hammers cutting down the carved work symbolize the old forms you trusted to stand in the temple of your mind—habits, images, conclusions about who you are. The fire cast into the sanctuary represents the energy of belief turning toward destruction, a process that seems to erase what you hold dear. Yet no outside force harms God in you; the desolation is a shift in your inner climate, an invitation to revise your sense of what is real. By choosing a new assumption—the I AM as the ever-present temple, the conviction that this inner sanctuary remains intact—you reinterpret the scene. The attack becomes a sign that you are reordering your experience from within. As you persist in the vision of a restored sanctuary, the inner reality begins to match your revision, and the sense of desolation dissolves into quiet power.