Desolate City, Inner Wilderness
Isaiah 27:10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 27 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The defenced city is stripped of its defenses, becoming desolate and forsaken. In that desert, old structures yield to new inner life.
Neville's Inner Vision
Beloved, Isaiah paints a scene of a defended mind reduced to a wilderness. Your outer fortresses symbolize patterns you cling to for safety—control, reputation, the belief that you must protect what you are. When you yield to inner truth, the fortified city is desolate and the habitation forsaken; yet this desolation is not punishment but a clearing where false images die and the I AM becomes evident. The calf that feeds there is the raw energy of desire—an untrained impulse roaming the streets of your psyche. It lies down and consumes branches you once cherished as nourishment, a sign that you have misdirected life toward defense rather than growth. As you allow the scene to dissolve, you grant the inner life permission to reimagine itself. The wilderness becomes a space of possibility, a quiet workshop where new meanings are formed by awareness itself. You are not exiled; you are freed to awaken to what you already are. The kingdom you seek is not somewhere else; it rests in the I AM you already are, awaiting your conscious recognition.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and say, I am the I AM. Assume the fortified city is desolate within, feel the defenses dissolve, and picture newborn shoots of life emerging where the calf once fed.
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