Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 14:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 14 in context

Scripture Focus

4Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

5That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

Ezekiel 14:4-5

Biblical Context

God will answer each person according to the idols they place in their heart. The text shows Israel is estranged from God because of those inner idols.

Neville's Inner Vision

Idols in the heart are not external statues but habitual pictures you cherish as real. The Ezekelian warning speaks to the inner man: you approach the prophet only through the life you imagine as true. When you cling to a thought or feeling as power apart from God, you set up that idol in your heart and block the awareness of your oneness. God—the I AM within you—answers according to the inner atmosphere you maintain. Therefore revise those pictures: insist that the Presence you seek is already here as your very awareness. Feel that you are the steady ground of being, not the fluctuating image of lack or control. Practice is not begging God to change but waking to the truth of your state. In time, the estrangement dissolves as your dominant imagining aligns with the Presence you are.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and make the assumption that you are already one with the Presence you seek. Silently revise any idol in your heart by declaring, 'I am the I AM; nothing stands between me and God,' and feel that reality now.