Dwelling in God's House: Inner Strength

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the sparrow nesting at your inner altar—the altar is your state of awareness, the I AM you presently are. To dwell there is not a distant promise but a realized condition: you are blessed when you stand in this sanctuary, and stillness becomes the tongue with which you praise. Strength, then, is not seized from without; it unfolds from a heart that has learned the ways of God and keeps them in memory. In your heart lie the dispositions of worship, trust, and gratitude, and these are formed by your inner alignment with the divine presence. When you act as if God is within you, when you revise your sense of self to that truth, feeling it real, you begin to see the outer life conform to the inner order. The house, the altar, the I AM—all are now your lived reality, and praise follows as surely as the dawn.