Inner City Idols in Acts

Neville's Inner Vision

The town is a mind, the clamor a movement of belief. What is worship but the alignment of awareness with an idea? When the town clerk proclaims Diana and the fallen image, see him naming a state of consciousness that clings to form, a mental idol rather than a deity. The city of Ephesus, in this light, is your inner temperament that reveres a confidant outside the Self. The 'great goddess' is any enthralling thought you have given authority: success, security, or approval. The image fallen from Jupiter is the external symbol that once seemed to prove the belief. But the moment you listen with the I AM, you perceive that all such idols are but images in awareness, and the temple is within. Your job is not to topple history but to revise the belief that keeps the idol alive. Make the assumption that the I AM is the sole governor of your inner town; feel the authority of God within as the only reality. When you dwell there, the clamor quiets, the idol crumbles, and true worship—conscious life—rises in place of the old order.