Within I Am: Sin's Feast Revisited
Hosea 4:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hosea 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse portrays leaders who feed on the people's sins and take pleasure in iniquity. It reveals a spiritual condition where attention and desire dwell on fault rather than holiness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Take from Hosea 4:8 the truth that 'they eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity' as a description of inner dynamics, not external sinners alone. The 'they' are your inner states of consciousness—habits, judgments, and priestly urgings—that feast on guilt and keep the heart fixed on error. When you dwell on sin, you nourish the very reality you fear. The remedy is to displace that appetite with the I AM—the unwavering awareness that you are consciousness, not the sin it observes. In this light, you are invited to revise by assuming a new state: I am the witness who does not feed on faulty thoughts; I am the presence that feeds on truth, wholeness, and holiness. Feel the change as if it already existed: your inner priests bow to your sovereignty, and the obsession with iniquity loses its power. Through this revision, the landscape of your life shifts, for you stop feeding the nightmare and begin feeding the divine idea of true being.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, affirm 'I AM the I AM,' and rest your attention as the silent witness. Revise by declaring 'I do not feed on sin; I feed on wholeness' and feel that sense becoming your immediate reality.
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