Inner Covenant Fire
Hosea 8:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hosea 8 in context
Scripture Focus
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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