Inner Idolatry Reclaimed

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's language, the 'valley' is a state of consciousness where fear and appetite run the show. The king's incense and the offering of his children symbolize devotion to external idols—status, convenience, approval—while inner life and possibility are sacrificed. The 'heathen abominations' are patterns of thought that deny the truth of your I AM. The Lord had cast them out before the children of Israel, an inner law that when you rise in awareness, old idols lose their power. The remedy is not discipline alone but a shift in imagining: you must awaken to your covenant loyalty, to the one God within—your I AM. You are the observer, the creator, and the sustainer, not the servant of fear. By revising the scene in imagination, you refuse to burn your inner children on the altar of fear; you bless them, you acknowledge their value, and you invest attention in the divine presence that animates them. When you do, the valley becomes a sanctuary of true worship, and your life follows the inner order of I AM.