From Idols to Inner Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 12 in context

Scripture Focus

1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
1 Corinthians 12:1-2

Biblical Context

Paul urges the Corinthians not to be ignorant about spiritual gifts and recalls their past as Gentiles led by dumb idols.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville register, spiritual gifts are the natural faculties of your inner being—the I AM made to operate as awareness, imagination, and action. To be ignorant of them is to forget your true center; the call is to awaken to who you really are. The line about Gentiles carried away to dumb idols points to old states of consciousness that followed external images and hollow rituals, which never spoke truth back to you. Those idols seemed to lead you because you yielded your center to what lay outside, rather than listening to the inner I AM. Yet gifts are not distant; they unfold where you stand when you accept the present I AM as source. The work is revision: replace the memory of being led astray with the certainty that you are now governed by inner light that births gifts. Do not seek power from idols; imagine and feel that your awareness itself is the gift, awakening through attention and love.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of already possessing the gifts. Close your eyes, repeat 'I AM the source of spiritual gifts,' and feel that truth in your body; in the next ordinary moment, observe how that gift expresses itself.

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