Idle Talk, Inner Worship

Exodus 5:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Exodus 5 in context

Scripture Focus

17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 5:17

Biblical Context

Pharaoh's officers call the people idle to justify keeping them at work. The people then declare their intent to go sacrifice to the LORD, exposing a tension between outward labor and true worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner seeker, 'idle' is not a fact of time but a state of consciousness you have accepted. The accusation in Exodus 5:17 is a projection of fear, a belief you must toil before you may worship. True worship, Neville would say, begins not with external sacrifice but with aligning your awareness with the I AM here and now. When you hear the call to 'go and sacrifice,' listen for the inner movement—an invitation to move your focus toward God within, to release resistance, to obey the inner instruction. The 'work' and the 'sacrifice' become inner acts: surrender, imaginative faith, and a decision to act from a higher premise. The old pattern calls you idle to justify control; your renewal is to revise that image and decree, I AM active in me now. When you stand in that state, you observe obedience and faithfulness not as a ritual, but as the living alignment of consciousness with God. The outer world then follows, reflecting the inner truth that you are the I AM in action.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, and for a minute, assume the feeling 'I AM the I AM, directing my life now.' Then revise your sense of the situation: 'I am not idle; I am the inner movement through which God acts.' Feel it real.

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