Longing for the Inner Courts

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the longing is not mere deficiency but a signal of the soul’s alignment with the I AM. The 'courts of the LORD' become the inner states of awareness where God dwells—the living presence you already are. Your 'soul' and 'flesh' crying out describe the total identification of feeling and thought with the divine I AM. In Neville’s terms, longing awakens faith: as you dwell in the conviction that God is your immediate life, every ache dissolves into reverence, trust, and stillness. Worship is not a ritual outward but a realization of your oneness with the living God, an inner movement from want to abundantly present Being. When you accept that the divine presence is your present condition, you shift from seeking to knowing, from memory of lack to living assurance, and the outward forms follow as expressions of that inner state.