Inner Candles of Complacency

Neville's Inner Vision

That which Zephaniah names as a time of judgment is not punishment from without but a clarifying movement within consciousness. Jerusalem is the inner city where I am aware, and the candles are the bright habits of attention I choose to keep lit. When I am settled on my lees, I tell myself that God will neither act for me nor against me; I deny the I AM that is always at work in me. Yet the truth remains: the Lord (my awareness) does good through my very decisions and the seeming 'evil' is merely ignorance surfacing to be seen and dissolved. The candlelight pierces the self-satisfied beliefs and exposes the complacent claim that outcomes arise from chance. As I accept the Lord as the active principle in me, I revise the sense of separateness and feel the reality that every experience is a manifestation of my inner state. By choosing a new conviction that I am the channel through which harmony, guidance, and good flow, I awaken the divine verdict that has always been mine.