Neville Goddard on Hosea 14:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 14 in context

Scripture Focus

1O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Hosea 14:1-4

Biblical Context

Israel is urged to return to the Lord and confess their iniquity; they are asked to renounce reliance on idols and external powers. God promises healing and mercy when they turn back.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take Hosea 14:1-4 as a map of the inner life. Backsliding is not a distant sin but a drift of attention away from the I AM toward imagined powers. When you hear 'return unto the LORD thy God,' you are being invited to awaken to the sovereign awareness that you are, and always have been, the I AM. The words you take with you are not external rituals but internal vibrations—verbs whispered until they become felt truth: 'Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously.' To say you will no longer serve 'Asshur' or the horsework of hands is to renounce dependence on anything apart from the one Life within. The fatherless finding mercy is the mercy you train your feeling to recognize in yourself; God’s anger is turned away as you align with your true nature. The promise 'I will heal their backsliding' is the inner revision you perform with conviction: you shift your sense of self back to wholeness, and mercy floods the field of your experience.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the healed state; silently repeat, with feeling, 'Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously,' until the sense of being loved and received by the I AM wells up within you. Let that feeling remain as your baseline perception for the day.