Inner Covenant Against Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, the 'nations' are states of consciousness you inhabit; 'fearing the LORD' is the living acknowledgment of the I AM—the one awareness that stands at the helm of your experience. The 'graven images' are fixed pictures, habitual beliefs, and identifications you have held about yourself, life, or lack; they are the idols your mind keeps revisiting. The clause about children and grandchildren shows how these inner dispositions repeat, not as fate but as the outer reflection of your inner worship. When you allow the old images to govern you, you are practicing a form of worship that is not true to the reality of the I AM; when you catch yourself in that pattern, you can revise. The remedy is not to condemn the images but to return to the one Presence within you, the I AM, and to imagine from that center a new reality where there is unity, sufficiency, and truth. Your present life can align with true worship the moment you refuse to abandon the conviction that imagination shapes being, and you feel it real.