Inner Covenant Fire

Hosea 8:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Hosea 8 in context

Scripture Focus

13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Hosea 8:13-14

Biblical Context

Hosea warns that sacrifices and grand temples mean nothing if the inner relationship to God is forgotten. Exile and ruin follow when one forgets the Maker.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your world is not judged by outward acts but by the state you inhabit. When you 'sacrifice flesh' to ritual and eat its image, you are telling your awareness that form nourishes the soul while the Maker inside is forgotten. The 'Egypt' Hosea names is the mind clinging to old pictures instead of the I AM who is always present. The fire that devours cities is the inner heat of thoughts that refuse to yield to a higher order, destroying the palaces you once trusted. True worship is fidelity to the I AM, the awareness that animates every experience. If you seek monuments of form, you exile yourself from your own consciousness, and the world shows you the ruin of that separation. Yet you can reverse this by returning to your inner Covenant: consciously identify with the I AM, imagine yourself anchored in that state, and let the old images dissolve as you inhabit the new being you truly are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the I AM as your present state; revise the idea that outward rites suffice. Feel it real that you are the maker here and now, letting the inner fire burn away old temples and rebuild from within.

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