Silencing Mirth, Awakening Worship
Hosea 2:11-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hosea 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Hosea 2:11-13 declares that God will withdraw outward joy—feast days, new moons, sabbaths, and solemn feasts—so people turn from idols and remember the Lord. The passage points to true worship as an inner return to the I AM beyond ritual.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the verse as a portrait of consciousness: the mirth and the feasts are not enemies but signposts. When you awaken to the I AM as your permanent state, the outer symbols of worship either fade or surrender their hold, to make space for a deeper allegiance. Hosea’s God withdraws the outward rewards to awaken you to the inward garden—the vines and fig trees of belief in rewards become a forest of shifting thoughts, to be walked through by the beasts of the field until you grow aware that the source of value is not possession but awareness itself. The days of Baalim represent the habit of seeking incense and approval from imagined lovers; yet the Lord’s reminder is that you forgot me, not that you must abandon worship. Return to the inner witness, revise your sense of rewards, and feel that the true feast is the conscious communion with the I AM. The shift is from doing to Being, from ritual to realization.
Practice This Now
Assume the state that outward feasts have ceased; in your imagination, walk through an inner garden where the vines return and the beasts disappear. Feel it real that you are the I AM, and the true 'reward' is inner knowing rather than ritual.
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