Inner Worship and Marvelous Work
Isaiah 29:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 29 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage condemns lip-service worship while the heart remains far; true reverence requires inner alignment, not the fear taught by human precepts. It also promises a marvellous work that unsettles worldly wisdom and reveals a higher discernment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider that every verse is a description of your state of consciousness. When you read, 'they draw near me with their mouth,' you are naming the habit of praising with words while your inner I Am is not in true agreement with the movement of your thinking. The 'fear toward me' taught by men is the method you learned to regulate yourself by external standards instead of the living awareness that you are the I Am behind all you imagine. The marvellous work is not a distant miracle; it is the inner reorientation of your disposition so that heart and mouth harmonize in one note. As you stop handing your power to mental authorities and begin to assume the truth of your own divine life, the wisdom of the world fades, and the apparent cleverness of the wise is displaced by a direct discernment that arises from inner certainty. The promise is that consciousness itself will perform a marvelous work when you persist in the assumption that you are the I Am here and now and that every experience reflects that state.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume you are already aligned with the I Am, letting inner devotion govern your words. For five minutes, feel it real that your heart and mouth sing in unison, and watch the old fear of human precepts dissolve.
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