Illuminating Inner Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

Zephaniah 1:12-13, read through the Neville lens, declares that what you settle into your mind becomes your outward weather. "Search Jerusalem with candles" is not a punishment from some distant deity but the inner gentle prodding of awareness: illuminate the psyche until every corner where you have grown comfortable with your lees is seen. The line about those who say in their heart that the LORD will not do good or evil is the stubborn belief that God is a distant statistic and not the active I AM here-now. When you cling to that thought, your goods are plundered, houses desolate, and even your harvests remain unconsumed—because you have halted the imagination that would bring them to life. The remedy is to reverse the state: acknowledge that God (I AM) is the ever-present actor in your life, and that you are the one imagining the conditions. Assume a new state, plant the vision, feel it real, and live from that inner certainty; the external shall reflect the inner heaven you now dwell in. In short, your inner Jerusalem can become a thriving city when you stop auditing the lack and begin the consistent act of imagining the good.