Inner Crown of Psalm 97

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm I hear your inner court proclaiming, not a distant king, but the I AM that you are. The idols are not wood and stone; they are restless thoughts insisting you are lacking, controlled by fear or matter. When you confess the Lord on the throne of your consciousness—when you acknowledge, 'I AM above all my beliefs'—the sense of confinement dissolves. Zion listening is your awareness turning toward truth; the judgments of the Lord become your inner discernment that separates truth from illusion. The line 'thou art high above all the earth' translates into: your awareness stands above every shifting feeling and circumstance. To love the LORD is to align with love in your everyday thoughts; hatred of evil becomes refusal to identify with lack, doubt, or sin as real. As you persist in this alignment, your inner saint is preserved—fear loosens its grip and deliverance arrives from the hands of the wicked, that is, from the false images you once worshiped. This is the kingdom built within, not without.