Inner Idols and True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner scene is what makes or breaks outward show. The command 'Neither be ye idolaters' points not to a distant idol but to the mind’s tendency to cling to images of safety, pleasure, and status. When 'the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play,' that is the language of a mind given to sensory identification, a belief that life is found in surfaces rather than in the I AM that animates all. In the sight of God, there is no separation; true worship is the constant alignment of awareness with the eternal presence within. If you find yourself rehearsing a scene of success, approval, or gratification as if it were reality, you are worshiping a construct rather than the Living God. Replace the image with the recognition: I AM, and only I AM, is the source of all reality. The 'idol' dissolves when your consciousness refuses to give it life through belief. Begin to dwell in gratitude, in the sense that you are, here and now, the temple of God.