Inner Worship, Not Mere Ritual

Amos 5:21-23 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Amos 5 in context

Scripture Focus

21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 5:21-23

Biblical Context

Amos 5:21-23 rejects hollow feast days, offerings, and songs, insisting that true worship arises from an inner state rather than outward ritual.

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos speaks to the inner man: outward ceremonies are empty unless the worshiper’s consciousness is aligned with the I AM. In Neville’s terms, the feast and the music are not denied; they reveal a belief in separation from the divine. The call is to revise your inner state by assuming you are already the I AM, the living presence that accepts and contains all offering. When you imagine and feel from that center, you erase the need for ritual approval. Your true worship becomes an inner alignment — a steadfast conviction that your life is already sacred, and that the world must reflect that inner reality. The imagery of offerings and melodies gives way to the certainty of consciousness: you are the altar, the offering, and the audience of God all at once. As you dwell in that awareness, the noise of outward ritual dissolves into quiet power, and life responds from within.

Practice This Now

Practice: sit quietly and declare, 'I am the I AM; this moment is my altar.' Feel that certainty pervade your body for several minutes as you revise from ritual to inner truth.

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