The Inner Fire of Worth
Ezekiel 15:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezekiel 15 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse shows that even something seemingly useless becomes wholly useless after its fire. It points to inner states of consciousness that produce no true work until they are purified by inner judgment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Behold the vine wood when it was whole; it seems useless for any work. In Neville's inner language, the wood is a state of consciousness that claims value only by appearance, not by fruit. The fire that devours it is not vengeance from without, but the inner spotlight of awareness that reveals what your mind is really doing. When a state has no function in the kingdom of imagination, it will not perform in life, and the 'burning' exposes that fact most clearly. The moment you acknowledge I AM as the ruler of your experiences, you may revise the state—not by cursing the fire, but by turning it toward you as revelation. Assume a new fact: that you are already purified, useful, and free to create. With that assumption, the old wood loses its claim; you no longer need it to prove your worth. The inner fire becomes a path to holiness and separation from counterfeit work; you stand present to your true self, and thus the work you seek springs forth from consciousness rather than from borrowed forms.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume the state 'I am already purified and useful'; feel it real for a minute, letting that image burn away the old sense of uselessness.
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