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Hosea 4:16-17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Hosea 4 in context

Scripture Focus

16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hosea 4:16-17

Biblical Context

Israel is described as slipping back into a backsliding state and clinging to idols. The text also signals that true nourishment comes when one ceases such attachments and rests in a spacious, abundant inner state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within every soul, 'Israel' is your current state of consciousness. When you slide backward, as a backsliding heifer, you have wandered from the I AM that you truly are. The Lord feeding them as a lamb in a large place is not a punitive decree; it is the natural feeding of your imagination when you cease feeding on images that separate you from your divine center. Ephraim joined to idols is the mind clinging to fictions—present circumstances, lack, fear, or people who seem to hold you. Let him alone means God withdraws the glare of your attention from those futile idols, not because you are abandoned, but because you are free to discover your own inner sovereignty. In the spacious field—the large place—the lamb finds nourishment with room to roam; so too your consciousness, when you stop insisting on the idol's reality, will be fed by the I AM, in abundance, without strain. Your task is to return to the assumption that you are already the I AM, surrounded by supply, not contingent on external beliefs. Trust this inner reality and the outer will align.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state in which you are already fed in a large place; for a moment, feel the abundance as real, then observe the day respond to that inner truth.

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