Neville Goddard on Isaiah 31:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 31 in context

Scripture Focus

6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

7For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Isaiah 31:6-7

Biblical Context

Turn back to the Lord and renounce the idols made by your hands. The passage says that in that turning, everyone will cast away their silver and gold images, symbolic of attachments that stand in the way of true worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Now, you are asked to turn from the inventions of your own mind—your idols of silver and gold, the projections you have made to secure love, success, or significance. In truth, God is I AM, the ever-present awareness within you. The act of turning is not a travel to a distant temple; it is a shift in consciousness from identification with the image to recognition of the greater I AM that animates it. When you cast away the idols, you are simply releasing the belief that wealth, status, or past images can provide lasting satisfaction. These are the things made by your own hands, and they are sins only as long as you cling to them as reality. The day described is your moment of inner conversion, when you realize that the wholeness you seek is already here, within your own awareness. By imagining yourself already abiding in the I AM, you dissolve the separation between you and divine reality; what you worship becomes your inner state, not an external object. Your repentance is a revision of identity, returning to the living consciousness that breathes.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare I turn unto the I AM within me now. See the idol—your image of wealth or status—vanish in a blaze of awareness, and feel that your consciousness is one with the God I AM.