The Idol Within the Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse, the 'idols' are not merely statues but inner repeats—habits of thought that enthrone fear, lack, or separation. To do abominably, as the text says, is to align with a mind that has betrayed the true allegiance of the Covenant: the I AM, the awareness through which all things originate. Just as the Amorites were cast out before Israel, your inner life can cast out every idol by returning to the one ruler of your experience: you, the I AM. When you entertain a substitute, you are rehearsing a scene where you are not the authority; you feel its effect as limitation, repetition, and otherness in your world. The inner truth is that you are the awareness through which the world is made. Your imagination can re-create the scene by assuming that the idol never held power, and that the inner state remains faithful to the covenant. The 'abomination' dissolves as you acknowledge nothing but the I AM, and as you dwell in that recognition, the outer circumstances begin to reflect a ruling consciousness rather than a defeated one.